Install sarge from cd
Hi there,
I had a try installing sarge using the cd images from
ftp://ftp.uni-bremen.de/pub/mirrors/debian_cdimages/debian-unofficial/sarge
without success :-\
First I could not get the installer to work. It reports
Failed to retrieve installer module
Retrieving the module libc-udeb failed for unknown reasons.
Aborting
[Press enter to continue]
This problem has been described a couple of times. The suggested
solution was to install a basic woody and to a dist-upgrade. So
did I.
The dist-upgrade failed since the file Packages.gz seems to
point to wrong files like /data/.2/debian/pool/... which should
actually point to pool/... Since apt expects this path relative
to /cdrom the path /cdrom/data/.2/debian/pool/... is needed.
This path cannot be created on a existing cdrom ;-/
So my workarround was to copy the cdrom to the hard disk,
create a link [copied cdrom]/data/.2/debian/pool and do a
dist-upgrade from there. This one seemed to work.
Unfortunately there are 9 cdroms left which do not fit on my
harddisk.
Is there anyone who expierenced the same problems? Maybe there
are simpler workarounds.
I still cannot get X to run. I installed xf86* packages from the
sarge cd1. I used xf86config to get an XF86Config file.
The problem is that there is not link (or prog)
/usr/X11R6/bin/X.
Is there program which can create this link to the X-server or I
am requested to do it by hand? Maybe I have forgotten to install
a package. The choosen driver (mga-something) seems to be in
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/driv
BTW: My machine is on a telephone line so I cannot use a
net-installation. I would like to use sarge and not woody
since I would like to use the newer packages like gcc-3.3.
F'up might be set to linux.debian.maint.boot
Thanks for any hints.
Regards, Uwe
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