Package: debian-installer Version: 20110106+b1 Severity: normal The initrd [1] dated 09 Dec 2010 does not seem to contain the 'sha1sum' program. Because of this, after downloading Packages.gz it fails, saying that the package list is corrupt. Switching to the log console (Alt+F4) shows that in reality the problem is "sha1sum: file not found".
This can be solved by downloading the sha1sum binary for mipsel (manually unpacked from the coreutils package) while still booted into the installer: (Alt+F2) cd /bin/ wget http://somewhere/somedir/sha1sum chmod +x sha1sum after which the installation proceeds successfully. The issue may also present in initrds other than the one referenced here. [1] http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/mipsel/daily/malta/netboot/initrd.gz -- With respect, Roman
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