On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 08:14:48PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > I hope I'm submitting this for the right package. I tried installing Woody > > from floppies on Feb 2, 2002. The installer didn't like the base disks (it > > couldn't recognize the first disk as a base disk). I used dd to move all > > the disks over and catted them into a basedebs.tgz (first checking that > > this produced the exact same result as basedebs.tgz). > > > > Using the basedebs.tgz resulted in the installer complaining that gunzip > > failed. I gzipped the file and everything worked. > According to a message from aj, this should be fixed by now. (That is, > the basedebs.tgz on the mirrors should be a real .tgz)
Actually, it should be basedebs.tar. (The stuff inside it is already gzipped so it's not worth gzipping again). > If you verify it's OK, could you just send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. The daffodils are coming. Are you? linux.conf.au, February 2002, Brisbane, Australia --- http://linux.conf.au/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
