Bug#975367: installation-report
On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 10:38:07AM +0330, Sayed Hadi Rastgou Haghi wrote:
>Package: installation-reports
>
>Partitions:
>/dev/sda1 / ext4 [formated]
>/dev/sda2 swap
>/dev/sda3 /home ext4 [kept old partiotin]
>/dev/sda4 /var ext4 [kept old partiotin]
>
>Comments/Problems:
>
>We were trying to install fresh debain on old debian 8 installed machine and
>wanted to keep old /var partiton as new /var partition. But this made base
>system to fail with bootstrap errors on install.
>
>Content of /var/log/syslog :
>base-installer: error: exiting on error base-installer /debootstrap-failed
>main-menu[620]: WARNING ** : configuring "bootstrap-base" failed with error
>code 3
>main-menu[620]: WARNING ** : Menu Item "bootstrap-base" failed
>base-installer: warning: attempting to install to unclean target
>debootstrap: tar: can't open './usr/share/doc/gcc-8-base/
>README.Debian.amd64.gz' File exists
>debootstrap: xscat: write: Broken pipe
>debootstrap: ar: write error: Broken pipe
This isn't going to work - you can't just install over an existing
system like this.
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there
must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the
far end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled
knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer
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