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Hi,
I'm trying to
install Debian 3.0r1 on a 900 MHz AMD Athlon with Asus A7V motherboard.
However, I'm having two problems.
First, when I'm in the middle of the install
process, and the installer is adding packages to the system, I get the following
error regardless of how many times i try or if I try to run apt-get
manually:
dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line
16078
package '(package name here)': 'Depends' field, reference to 'libc6': version contains ' ' E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) This error occurs with many different
packages. (One of the packages that caused this problem was a Python
package.) Rebooting does not help. Anyone have any idea what is
causing this?
The second thing is that I cannot get a decent
console framebuffer mode to work. In order to actually see the text on the
console instead of garbled color blocks on the screen right after the first
reboot (in the middle of the install), I have to pass "video=vga16:off" to the
kernel. My video chip is an ATI Rage128 (ATI Xpert 2000), but the
kernel module for the rage 128 chip doesn't seem to work. Any help would
be greatly appreciated.
(I have been using the bf24 kernel because it is
the only install kernel that will recognize my Promise Ultra100 Hard disk
controller.)
Thanks.
-- Anand Atreya
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