Hello, I just tried installing Debian unstable on an extra disk I had kicking around (I've been running stable for several years without any trouble).
This is what I did: I fetched the etch installer (there seems to be no dedicated "unstable" installer) and installed a minimal barebones system (bailed right out of tasksel without checking anything). Booted into this system, and changed the relevant lines in /etc/apt/sources.list from "etch" to "unstable". I also deleted the CD-ROM sources (which is testing) as well as the security ones (there being no explicit security stuff for unstable). Then I did "apt-get update" and "apt-get dist-upgrade". The system worked for a while; I cant't really recall what happened, and threw a lot of errors. The "update" bit works fine, but whenever I run "apt-get upgrade" or "apt-get dist-upgrade", I get this: ------------------------------- Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following packages will be upgraded: adduser bsdmainutils bsdutils busybox console-common console-data coreutils cron debianutils dhcp3-client dhcp3-common dmidecode dpkg dselect gcc-4.1-base gzip initscripts installation-report klibc-utils klogd libacl1 libattr1 libc6 libc6-i686 libdevmapper1.02 libgcc1 libgpg-error0 libklibc libnewt0.52 libreadline5 libsepol1 libstdc++6 libusb-0.1-4 libvolume-id0 libwrap0 linux-image-2.6.18-3-486 locales lsb-base module-init-tools mount nano netbase openbsd-inetd readline-common sysklogd sysv-rc sysvinit sysvinit-utils tasksel tasksel-data tcpd tzdata udev util-linux vim-common vim-tiny whiptail Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: configuration error: unknown option log: Success dpkg: configuration error: unknown option log: Success dpkg: configuration error: unknown option log: Success dpkg: configuration error: unknown option log: Success dpkg: configuration error: unknown option log: Success dpkg: configuration error: unknown option log: Success 57 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/39.5MB of archives. After unpacking 3084kB of additional disk space will be used. dpkg: configuration error: unknown option log: Success E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) ------------------------------- And the system is left in a completely unusable state. I couldn't even edit the apt sources back to "etch" because I couldn't get an editor: # vi /etc/apt/sources.list -bash: /usr/bin/vi: no such file or directory. So what can I do now? Thanks, --Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
