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Re: Installation troubles after rebooting, loops



Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:

> You can switch to a different VT and kill base-config once it goes into
> its loop, install the one from unstable, and run base-config by hand. Or
> better, boot up to single user mode in the first reboot, upgrade
> base-config to unstable's at that point, and let it boot on up to
> multiuser for a clean test of unstable's base-config.

It's not that easy.  If you kill base-config, then init will just
start another one.

You have to edit it out of /etc/inittab, kill it off, and then do what
Joey says.



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