Re: Installation troubles after rebooting, loops
I used the following work-around to install testing:
- first download base-config .deb package from unstable and
put it on another partition of your harddisk (or floppy?)
- install testing until the installer starts looping (after the reboot)
- switch to another VT
- type "init 1" (goes to runlevel 1) and login as root
- then mount the partition with the unstable base config
package and install it with dpkg
- reboot (type "reboot", do not use CTRL-D) to continue
The installation now proceeds without looping. At the point you
can select the source for apt, choose to enter it manually and
use the testing sources (I did an install from an ftp server).
- Richard.
On Monday 06 May 2002 20:23, G. Del Merritt wrote:
> At 11:51 PM 5/3/2002 -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> >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.
>
> I remain confused. I experienced the looping bug. I edited
> /etc/apt/sources.list to point to unstable and did an apt-get update and
> upgrade of base-config. I then changed my sources.list to point back to
> testing.
>
> I ran base-config - no loop! - but now it's getting from "stable" instead
> of from testing.
>
> I don't mind running a partial potato, since I'm installing this on my
> son's new system, but I was kind of hoping to get from stuff woody
> instead. Is this a feature of base-config, or did I lamely overlook a
> switch or config file that would have forced it to get from stable? My
> sources.list just had a single line at this point:
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main
>
> but now, lo and behold, it has a bunch of lines in addition to/following
> that one, all pointing to various "stable" sites.
>
> -Del
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