--On Saturday, March 13, 2004 15:57:18 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I looked again at your report, and one possibility is some breakage that
> was present in base-installer on or about March 9th. That took a while
> to get moved into testing, and I think it happened yesterday. The
Chaskiel M Grundman wrote:
> Yes, I'm sure.
>
> I also think I've found one of the problem:
>
> debian.mirrors.pair.com does not use any path prefix. "dists" and "pool"
> are in the top level of the ftp or http root. As a result, $DIRECTORY is
> the empty string.
>
> from base-installer's postin
--On Saturday, March 13, 2004 14:01:48 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 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.
Yes, I'm sure.
I also think I've found one of the
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/d
--On Friday, March 12, 2004 23:43:53 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> wish that we had a better method for getting logs off the machine. If
> you have some reasonable way available to do so (a floppy, save to disk
> and mail them from a different installation, etc), then you could try
Chaskiel M Grundman wrote:
> It appears to be reproducible if I install from debian.mirrors.pair.com
> (which I had chosen explicitly, since it's nearby), but not from whatever
> ftp.us.debian.org got me.
>
> Here's the output:
>
>
> Starting Setting up klogd (1.4.1-10) ...
> Stopping kernel log
--On Friday, March 12, 2004 22:06:23 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I think one possibility is that it might have failed to download a
> package, although you should have gotten an error dialog and the
> progress bar should have been taken down. Can you reproduce this
> problem, an
You wrote:
> everything went smoothly till the base-install ran. Part or most of the way
> through the base install (after tasksel was configured), the d-i step menu
> popped up (the progress dialog from the base system install is visible
> behind the menu). If I select "Install GRUB boot loader" o
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 03-08-2004 i386 netboot (from ftp.debian.org)
uname -a: N/A: install failed; installer is running 2.4.25-1-386
Date: 20040310 12am
Method: PXE install
Machine: Dell PowerEdge 400SC
Processor: Pentium 4 2.8Ghz
Memory: 640MB
Root Device: ICH5
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