Re: Further installation woes WAS: trouble installing RAID and LVM.

[Chris Bannister <mockingbird@ihug.co.nz>]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 10:09:19PM -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> During the installation, after the reboot into the new system, it goes 
> into package-selection mode.  It is during this time that it gave me the 
> choice of choosing categories of packages or individual package 
> selection.  When I ask for the package category "minimal system" here 
> and nothing else, I have the problems I reported.  The installer refused 
> to get past this point until I specified nothing at all, not even the 
> so-called "minimal system".  But fortunately, the system runs without 
> the so-called "minimal" system.  I presume the dependencies are screwed 
> up somehow.  Is it dselect that the intaller uses for this phase?  If 

dselect is only an interface, like aptitude. Most likely it is an error
and is fixed in the latest version.

> It may be relevant, and I thing it's mentioned somewhere in the ancient 
> history of this thread, but it is the AMD64 port I amd having all these 
> problems with.

Maybe the people on debian-amd64 would like to know about this?

-- 
Chris.
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