Hi Wiktor, On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote:
- The installer progreses up to the point where it wants to install a base system, but it is unable to do so. The error diplayed is: [!!] Install the base system Cannot install DebianThe installer cannot figure out how to install Debian. No installable CD-ROM was found and no valid mirror was configured.<Go Back> <Continue> I attach a gzipped archive of whole /var/log directory of the debian installer (from its ramdisk). On the target machine the installer created only some less important files.
According to the logs the base-installer (it's postinst script, actually) exited with error "cannot_install". According to the source, this error can only occur (given that the CD is properly mounted under /cdrom) if it fails to read the contents of the /cdrom/.disk/base_components file (which is present on CD). I tend to think that it was just some random cd-rom glitch (I didn't encounter any problems during my testing). Could you please try reproducing it, and if the problem persists, return to main menu, start a shell and check that the mentioned file indeed exists and contains the string 'main' (without quotes)?
Thanks for testing, Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC