Re: sarge installer ver. 03/10/2004

[Shaul Karl <shaulk@actcom.net.il>]

  I didn't follow the whole thread, so I hope the following is
meaningful. I also believe I had a similar problem and got help on
debian-boot. 
  In my case the reason that the kernel installation, and, more
precisely, mkinitrd failed is that there is/was a bug with etc/fstab in
the partitioner. What I did is the following:
  1. Immediately before the installation of base I executed a shell. 
     This option is at the bottom of the expert version. I don't know
     whether the regular (linux) version has it.
  2. Within the shell, the command
         cat target/etc/fstab
     failed. So one has to issue
         /usr/lib/partconf/mkfstab
  3. Exit the shell and continue with the installation of the boot
     system.

  Thank to Petter Reinholdtsen from
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/debian-boot-200403/msg01591.html 
and to anyone working on the d-i.
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