Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-11 Severity: important
Mac users often times download items to their desktop. If the debian archive folders are downloaded to the desktop, they actually reside in /Desktop\ Folder/ . In this situation, the installer correctly finds the archive mirror files, but the installation fails after the user agrees that it is the right path. After moving the archive files out of /Desktop\ Folder/ on to the root of the partition, the install proceeds normally. I believe the spaces need to be escaped in the code, if they appear in the pathname. There must be a nice routine to do this in C, I don't know... but it looks like the place to fix it up is around line 1506 in choose_medium.c. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: powerpc Kernel: Linux iMacBlue 2.4.16-newpmac #1 Mon Jan 7 20:51:25 EST 2002 ppc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual> | | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To Have, Give All to All (ACIM) | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
