Hello Debian Users: I haven't seen this on the FAQ or any of the recent messages that I have found. I'm trying to recycle an old NEC Pentium 200 with 128Mb of RAM so I can experiment with Linux. I am not trying to dual boot or anything fancy - Debian will have the whole disk. loaded up Debian from the binary 1 image of Debian 3.1 r0a. After an initial glitch with a GRUB error 18 that was apparently caused by a partition being too large - I think this was due to the old BIOS on the machine combined with a large hard drive (I cut the partition down and made two partitions) it installed smoothly and seemed to recognize all the hardware. It finished the install and I rebooted from the system now loaded on the hard drive.
Again, all seemed to go well until it got to "This program will now walk you through the process of setting up . . ." Then I got three error messages that repeated (it seemed to be in a loop) - First - 13 77 Failed at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 166 then - Can't exec "locale": No such file or directory at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 12 and - Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 13 I couldn't find any way to make it go any further. I was able to shut down and I booted up a Knoppix CD, mounted the HD file systems and was able to look at the scripts. Dialog.pm is aparently generated by another process. The version on the drive didn't have anywhere close to 166 lines. I was able to look at the script Encoding.pm and I saw where it was trying to use "locale" but I didn't see anything I could do to resolve the error. I would appreciate any advice or assistance. I apologize in advance if I have overlooked something obvious (I did try to RTFM and I didn't see anything about this). Thanks, Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
