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Re: broken old installer?



On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:21:17AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote:
> I'm somewhat CD-writing-impaired, and have always installed debian systems
> using outdated installers.  For a long time I used a woody net install cd,
> but since mid-2005 I've been using a sarge net install cd, as recently
> as a month ago, without problems.  Now I'm seeing the install fail.
> Unfortunately, the first error screen indicating a problem is quickly
> (~ 1 second maybe) replaced with an information-free curses page saying
> that there were errors...
> 
> ...
> On thing I haven't tried is to do the install completely off the CD,
> and do the net upgrades later.

... which of course didn't work from the *net install* cd.  I was able
to proceed after upgrading aptitude (and related libraries) from another
console.

> Should I not be using my trusty old installer?

I guess not.

-- 
Ken Irving, fnkci+debianuser@uaf.edu



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