make-live iso stops with "E: Couldn't install root!"

[andrea at tasso.info (andrea@tasso.info)]

hello,

I run sarge, when I do (all defaults)
make-live iso

after a warning
P: Retrieving Release
P: Parsing Release
P: Retrieving Packages.gz
P: Validating Packages
P: Parsing Packages
W: can't find package: base-config
P: Retrieving tzdata

it goes on until

P: Unpacking package apt
P: Configuring package apt
E: Couldn't install root!

and then it exits.

I went through ml but I found no hints ...

ciao,

Andrea aka Tassilone

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