Bug#479781: Debootstrap
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Anders Winnberg wrote:
> Comments/Problems: I partitioned the SCSI disk using Partition Magic.
> During the installation I chose Manual partitioning and merely gave the
> mount points for the two ext3-partitions (/boot and /). During the
> "Install base system" I got the following error message:
>
> Debootstrap warning:
> Failure trying to run: chroot /target dpkg --force-depends --install
> var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_4_i386.dev
> var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.5.11_i386.deb
[...]
> All this is gibberish to me. Could you please help?
The root of the problem seems to be the in these messages:
cannot create /target/debootstrap/debpaths: read-only file system
tar: couldnt remove old file: read-only file system
It seems that the way you did the partitioning or assigned the mountpoints
was somehow flawed. It is extremely unlikely that there is a problem in the
installer itself.
Did you let partman format the / and /boot filesystems? If not, you really
should.
If you cannot solve the problem yourself with this info, please send the
full syslog for the installation (from /var/log/). Make sure you compress
the file using gzip!
Cheers,
FJP
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