I had the same problem when I installed woody recently. Try to get an old (more than a month old) unofficial cdrom of woody and install the base system with it ; the base system you get via net install or by getting a fresh iso contains this bug. On Tue, 7 May 2002 12:47:43 +0200 "Nico Berg" <nberg@gandalf.xs4all.nl> wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a problem with the installation of Debian. I can reproduce this > problem so I asking myself: is it a bug how to solve the problem? > > I have tried to install the stable version from cd, netinstall from cd > and netinstall from diskette, stable and testing. The first time > installing(using stable diskette) Debian, it was a big succes. That's > the only time Debian installed normal. 5 time later I had the following > fault. > > I boot my system from diskette. Answer the questions Debian > (base-config?) ask, ending at the question "reboot the system". I reboot > then booting from/dev/hda. The I get a few questions: 1ste the question > about GMT. (answering this yes or no makes no differents) then the > question about the geographic region, then the question about the city. > After that the question about the Md5 passwords, following that the > question about shadow passwords, after that the question of root > password, then the question about the new user. After that the setup > loading /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz and starting the line of questions > again. Now the questions about the passwords and users are not asked all > other questions are asked! Then I am in a loop. Nothing to do about it. > I can open a console and kill the installer then Debian is going on with > the mailquestions. (I don't know if there has to be other questions) I > don't know if I missing other critical parts of my setup. > > Who does know something? My system is a notebook, 32mb memory, lcd > screen with a 2 mb LynxEm graphic adapter. 4 gig hd /dev/hda1 (10mb > /boot)/dev/hda2 (333mb swap) /dev/hda3 (rest /) > > Greetings, Nico berg > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> "Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them ?" -- Gandalf the Grey
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