Need help installing Potato on the Netra t1

[Matthew Hall <mhall@nms.fnc.fujitsu.com>]

/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure base-config

This line isn't working in the default inittab that is
in place when the machine reboots for the first time.

Can someone tell me what this line does, and how I can do
it by hand?

dselect appears to be working.  

Oh hm, dpkg-reconfigure is a perl script. Maybe I can
hack around that error. Any pointers?

Thanks,

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