Re: New Install Fails at Step 14

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

Did you set message priority to low and set logs to save to a mounted 
partition?  The first adjustment asks more questions and the second 
preserves logs if something blows up.  I think you can even have the 
logs saved to floppy disk too.

On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, Steve Matzura wrote:

> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 16:14:54
> From: Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com>
> To: debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: New Install Fails at Step 14
> Resent-Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 21:20:56 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> I'm installing 8.2 from DVD with speech output. At Step 14, I select
> the packages I want--Web server, ssh server, and #11 which just says
> it's most of a lot of other things), and the install fails. I am not
> using a mirror. My DVD's all pass muster as per option 20 (check
> CD-ROM integrity). Option 14, "Install software," no longer gives me
> the option of choosing which software I want to install. Further,
> options 15 and 16 don't work either. They all tell me they can't
> install anything to /target.
>
> Since this is a new install, I'm happy to redo anything at all, right
> from scratch.

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