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Re: Lombard: Woody: dpkg install failure



try replacing your root.bin with:

http://master.penguinppc.org/~eb/root.bin

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.
> 
> I've tried the following install locations, all of which cause the same
> error to occur: 
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian
> http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian
> http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Rory
> 
> 
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Ethan Benson
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