Re: Installing woody
On Monday 03 December 2001 02:15 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:17:41AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > on Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 10:28:40PM +1300, Michael Jager
> >
> > (mjager@mac.com) wrote:
> > > How do you people install this? I have tried using potato floppies then
> > > changing apt sources, and downloading woody floppies and then I get a
> > > malformed release file error?
> >
> > You're apparently having problems with a program or system configuration
> > issue, but you've provided far from enough information to be able to
> > adequately address or resolve the issue.
>
> Not true, as it happens, if you've been following debian-boot, in which
> case the words "malformed release file" raise a big red flag. There's a
> bug currently filed against boot-floppies about this (#121724). I'm not
> a boot guru, but my impression from the various threads about this is
> that there's a bug in debootstrap whereby, if you give it the wrong URL
> for the archive - perhaps a broken mirror - on the first attempt, it'll
> never redownload it.
>
> Unfortunately the only way to work around this at the moment, as far as
> I know, is to get the archive URL right on the first attempt. Making
> sure that $URL/dists/woody/Release exists before you do the installation
> is a good start. If you get it wrong you have to start again and
> reformat the filesystem when the installer offers that to you. Naturally
> I hope and imagine that this'll be fixed before release.
>
> This could all be wrong, incidentally: I'm just collating what I've
> heard and passing it on. If it turns out to be something else, please
> follow up so that the list archives aren't too misleading.
hello,
it seems you are right; I got it wrong first time, and the only thing that
resolved the issue was starting again (along with a reformat)
dragos
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