How I installed Woody from reiserfs boot-floppies
This is what I did to install Woody using the reiserfs boot-floppies and the broken libpcap0 dependency. Details may not be exact, nor may they be needed; I didn't try a clean install this morning.
I had already gotten to the point where debootstrap tried and failed to install the base system because the PPP packages wanted a non-existant libpcap0. Here are the steps I took:
(Switch to VC 2)
host# chroot /target umount /proc
host# rm /target/etc/localtime #I'm not sure if this is necessary,
#but it complained about this file
host# cd /target/var/cache/apt/archives
host# wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libp/libpcap/libpcap0_0.6.2-2_i386.deb
edit /target/usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/woody (I don't remember if you need the leading /target) to include libpcap0 in the required= section. I removed the ppp and pppoe packages, because I wasn't going to use them.
switch back to VC 1 and select "Install the base system" again. It will complain that you already have stuff installed, but go ahead anyway. The system should proceed normally from there.
Enjoy,
F. Edward Barrett
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F. Edward Barrett
Network Specialist
Traverse Area District Library
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