Chaskiel M Grundman wrote: > ok. I've done so. I'm not sure how well the BTS deals with attachments, so > I'll include excerpts below as well as a link to the full logfiles. > > http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~cg2v/debian/install-sarge-syslog-20040313 > http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~cg2v/debian/install-sarge-messages-20040 > 313 > > /var/log/syslog is the more interesting file. The error that caused > base-installer.postinst to exit was this: > > mv /target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_sarge_Release > /target/var/lib/apt/lists/debian.mirrors.pair.com__dists_sarge_Release > mv: unable to rename > `/target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_sarge_Release': No > such file or directory > > The file does exist in the /target filesystem, but the script seems to have > umounted /target shortly before trying the mv.
Are you sure you told it to format and mount the partition? This could easily be leftovers from a previous install, and nothing that was run unmounts /target. I see evidence that the broken out of date mirror is causing at least some problems in the logs. -- see shy jo
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