On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 06:19:07PM +0200, Stephan van de Haar wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian 3.0 on my system but I cannot install the base > system. > > The installation procedure stops with an error: "failure while configuring > base packages". > This error is repeated 5 times. After that I get another error: "debootstrap > has exited with an error (return value 1)" > > After this error let the system write a report file to my disk. The > following line failed: > "/usr/sbin/debootstrap --boot-floppies --arch i386 sid /target > file:/instmnt" > > Then I removed the file awk and I tried to run this line manually. > Everything is going fine until the system tries to install the following > packages: > > "aptitude" and "lilo" It looks like you're installing from a CD. Which CD is it? It's installing from the sid distribution, which is odd. And those packages seem to be missing from the CD, I guess.
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