On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:01:36PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > Thanks to everyone, Ethan especially, in getting me to the install > phase! > > I'm trying to install woody on a Lombard powermac laptop. I'm installing > woody because woody correctly tries to install yaboot, whereas potato > does not. > > I'm booting from hd, then doing a kernel install over NFS (laziness - my > directories aren't properly named on my shared HFS partition), and I'm > trying to install the base system over http. > > I get the following install error while trying to install the base > system, which does not allow me to proceed: > > "Failure trying to run: > chroot /target dpkg --force-auto-select --force-overwrite -force" > > This error appears to occur only once the packages have been > successfully downloaded. debootstrap became broken when a new ppp package entered woody recently. (it added a dependency on libpcap0 which debootstrap doesn't include in its base list). i am afraid you will have to wait for the next release of boot-floppies, or sweet talk someone into building a set with the updated debootstrap (i wrote an NMU for it which aph uploaded yesterday). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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