Re: The infinite Loop Bug
I used the following work-around to install testing:
- first download base-config 1.33.18 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 (Press ALT-F2)
- 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 instead of the "stable" ones.
- Richard.
----- Original Message -----
From: <aeleblanc@olgc.on.ca>
To: <debian-testing@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 10:23 PM
Subject: The infinite Loop Bug
> Hi,
> I Used to use Debian about 6 months ago, and decided to spend some time
> trying out a variety of other Free OSs, but now i'm coming back to debian
> and to my surprise there was finally install disks for Woody, but I also
> read beforehand that there was an infinite loop bug, I tried the
> installation anyway, thinking maybe it had been fixed (the post I read was
> a few weeks old) but it wasn't. I kept reading and I got to read alot
> about Package rollovers and all this other stuff that was pretty
> irrelevant to me, but nobody actually explained how to go about installing
> woody short of waiting for the final release. can someone explain this to
> me? also, I dunno if anyone has seen this or if maybe one of my disks was
> kind of messed up, but part of the install program (Selecting modules for
> the kernel) looks completely mangled, wierd characters all over the
> place...
>
> Tnx in advance
> Andre
>
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