Re: corrupt baseGNU.tgz in K8 CD1 and mini

[Barry deFreese <bddebian@comcast.net>]

Billy O'Connor wrote:

> Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz> writes:
>
>  
>
> > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Chris Gorman wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > Just a quick note to let you know that the baseGNU.tgz file does not
> > > extract properly in debian-K8-hurd-i386-mini.iso and
> > > debian-K8-hurd-i386-CD1.iso.  This caused the install to fail on my
> > > system.  Unfortunatly due to disk space problems I erased the images
> > > before I could send the notification, but attempting to untar the
> > > baseGNU.tgz file should produce the error.
> > >      
> > Both these unpacked OK when I tested them.  So I suspect it is something
> > to do with your system.  Can you give us some more details please.
> >
> > Has anyone else had this problem?
> >    
>
> Yes, I noticed it too.  And after the install failed to untar
> baseGNU.tgz, I noticed that nano wasn't properly installed, a self
> referencing symlink iirc.  I mentioned this on the
> irc.freenode.net/#hurd and was told it was a bug.
>
>  
The base install freaked on my when I had an old version I was 
overwriting.  A fresh install kicked ass.  The nano problem has been 
around for a while now. :'-(

Thanks for all the work Philip!

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