On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:54:54AM +0100, Shriram Shrikumar wrote:
> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: N/A
> Severity: important
>
>
> got the latest testing disks-i386 pakcage to intall sid / testing over the internet
>and the network was set up and kernel packages installed (from local hard drive).
>
> When trying to install the base system, it would ask for the location to download
>from, and then show an error saying debootstrap exited abnormally and come back to
>the main menu. There was not more information on the tty3.
>
> Attempted to run debootstrap manually, copying the commandline from tty3, failed
>mentioning along the lines about architecture not detected and other times about 3:
>invalid file descriptor.
you can't run debootstrap on the command line with the --boot-floppies
switch, that only works when its run from dbootstrap. you also must
specify `--arch whatever' (powerpc, sparc, m68k, i386 ...) dbootstrap
should have done this (you can tell by looking at the log on tty3).
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Ethan Benson
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