Zitiere Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> tags 127677 + wontfix
> thanks
>
> Tomas Pospisek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > while trying to somehow find a basedebs.tgz
>
> Why were you even looking for it? Why didn't you follow the normal
> "install the base system" steps?
How would you install a Debian system with the two following assumptions:
1) you don't have a CD (I guess that at this time that's quite common)
2) you do not have a network but you do have a modem (dito)
Now if I follow the installer, then at one point it will want to install
the base system. There are vaious choices as a remember:
1) from CD :-(
2) from disks (there are none to be found anywhere)
3) from a mounted partition (aha!!! that's the one option I could take and
that's why I needed the basedebs.tgz for. And it's really hard to
find too!)
4) from a HD (same as before)
Do you see any alternative way of installing Debian for me?
> > I erroneously installed a powerpc basedebs.tgz on a i386
> > machine. Once I understood what went wrong I (after 4h of
> > searching!) found a i386 basedebs.tgz and installed it. But somehow
> > the install system was not able to replace the old/wrong installed
> > basesystem with the new/correct one. It would keep the old one in
> > place. So I had to manually "rm -R" everything away, otherwise the
> > new basedebs.tgz would not be installed. *t
>
> What are you asking for exactly?
That when something breaks during install of the basesystem, as f.ex.
a disk error etc., a newby will *not* be able to finish the installation.
He will have to start from scratch (reformat partition!)
IMO the system should overwrite (!!) everything it installs. It doesn't do
that now.
> How could we possibly remove all the files from the mis-installed base system?
rm -rf * f.ex?
> I don't think this is a valid bug, marking it so.
?
*t
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