On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 10:38:07AM +0330, Sayed Hadi Rastgou Haghi wrote: >Package: installation-reports > >Partitions: >/dev/sda1 / ext4 [formated] >/dev/sda2 swap >/dev/sda3 /home ext4 [kept old partiotin] >/dev/sda4 /var ext4 [kept old partiotin] > >Comments/Problems: > >We were trying to install fresh debain on old debian 8 installed machine and >wanted to keep old /var partiton as new /var partition. But this made base >system to fail with bootstrap errors on install. > >Content of /var/log/syslog : >base-installer: error: exiting on error base-installer /debootstrap-failed >main-menu[620]: WARNING ** : configuring "bootstrap-base" failed with error >code 3 >main-menu[620]: WARNING ** : Menu Item "bootstrap-base" failed >base-installer: warning: attempting to install to unclean target >debootstrap: tar: can't open './usr/share/doc/gcc-8-base/ >README.Debian.amd64.gz' File exists >debootstrap: xscat: write: Broken pipe >debootstrap: ar: write error: Broken pipe
This isn't going to work - you can't just install over an existing system like this. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the far end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer
