> I've found and just fixed an error that prevented installs booted from a
> usb stick from using the CD for any packages pase the base installation.
> Assuming all your CDs were iso images on a USB stick, this explains the
> problem.
Great news ! I'm eager to test this right now (I'm finished res
> And how works an AMD64 installer on a AMD64?
Sorry fot beeing late to follow up on this. I had quite a lot of problems with
my system : first lost partitions and now my system.
This is why I want open software : I'm fighting with my backup/restore soft to
convince it it's a shame for it not
> Based on your log files, you're doing an install using the hd-media
> images, and the iso on your drive is:
> May 8 11:07:26 base-installer: Found label 'Debian GNU/Linux testing
> _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20060314)'
Yes. Actually I tried almost all of the CD images available
> It is quite likely that the mirror you used at the moment of the
> install was broken.
>
> Have you tried using another Debian mirror?
I don't use any mirror at all. I skip the mirror configuration step.
A mirror is not needed : grub package (at least) is in the images I use.
> I don't exactly
> Please quote the exact error message, a paraphrased error message is
useless.
Here you are :
apt-install: Package grub is not available, but is referred to by another
package.
apt-install: E: Package grub has no installation candidate
grub-installer: info: Calling 'apt-install grub' failed
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> And how works an AMD64 installer on a AMD64 ?
I'll try and tell you (USB booting with hd-media/boot.img.gz only, I'm against
the CD's theory..)
Tonight if I have enough time : my playing with i386 installer broke some part
of my system hard disk partition table. No files lost, I'm just tranfer
> Mmmm, another amd64 ...
Oh, I forgot to say that I'm using only i386 images to install (on an AMD64
plateform yes !).
> There's likely to be more information in /var/log/syslogafter this error pops
> up.
Yes, it says grub could not be found (was hard to find)! I used netinst CD
image, then the first testing CD image (grud**.deb is actually in both) but I
have the exact same problem..
Hi all,
I tried to install almost all versions of Sid/Etch but the debia installer
always says "could not install grub to /target/".
Any idea ?
I'm installing from a USB thumbdrive using hd-media/boot.img.gz (btw good work
done with the usb keyboard freeze since Sarge !) to a 10GB partitin.
My
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