Bug#552787: #552787 [i386][squeeze][20091026-21:55] unable to install lenny from daily
On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Friday 06 November 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> > > Found the problem, which is documented but it's somewhat difficult
> > > to parse. This change in my preseed file fixed the issue:
> > >
> > > - d-i mirror/udeb/suite string lenny
> > > + d-i mirror/udeb/suite string testing
> >
> > This is not a bug. If you had not set this at all, then the installer
> > would just have done the correct thing. By setting it to a value (and
> > thus overriding the correct default set at build time) that does not
> > match which suite the installer was built from, you broke things
> > yourself.
>
> Actually, I suspect that you had an old daily image (which is based on
> *unstable*) that still used the 2.6.31-1 kernel while the udebs for that
> kernel no longer existed in unstable because they had been updated to
> 2.6.31-2.
>
> So, two options:
> - either you really did have an incorrect preseed file
> - or you had an outdated image
The image I was using was datestamped 20091026-21:55,
so it was not so old at the time (28th Oct).
I got it from the official dailies site (linked on the d-i 'home page').
> That setting mirror/udeb/suite to testing worked, was merely a coincidence
> and not a correct fix (because the only technically correct setting for a
> daily built image would have been sid or unstable).
Well it's kind of tough to figure out when the archive is in flux
and the documentation is misleading.
Thanks for taking the time to look at this and figure out what happened.
Can we go back a step.
I want to install lenny with the 'squeeze' installer.
Are you saying all I need to preseed is suite=lenny on the boot line?
Kind regards,
Vince
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