Re: Re: Installer fails on initrd-tools

2004-06-27 Thread Dan C
> * Dan C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-10 15:48]: > > That's it. I don't know why I didn't catch this myself and (properly) > > report the error, but df /target returns: > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1157076776 36284 149061412 > > 0

Re: Re: Installer fails on initrd-tools

2004-06-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Dan C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-10 15:48]: > That's it. I don't know why I didn't catch this myself and (properly) > report the error, but df /target returns: > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1157076776 36284 149061412 > 0% /target >

Re: Installer fails on initrd-tools

2004-06-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 12:52:39PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >> Dan C wrote: >> > + rootpart_devfs=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1156681320 >> >> It seems that base-installer finds the root partition by the rather >> broken method of doing a "df /ta

Re: Re: Installer fails on initrd-tools

2004-06-10 Thread Dan C
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 12:52 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Dan C wrote: > > + rootpart_devfs=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1156681320 > It seems that base-installer finds the root partition by the rather > broken method of doing a "df /target". I assume that you have a large > root partition, of

Re: Re: Installer fails on initrd-tools

2004-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 12:52:39PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Dan C wrote: > > + rootpart_devfs=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1156681320 > > It seems that base-installer finds the root partition by the rather > broken method of doing a "df /target". I assume that you have a large > root part

Re: Re: Installer fails on initrd-tools

2004-06-09 Thread Joey Hess
Dan C wrote: > + rootpart_devfs=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1156681320 It seems that base-installer finds the root partition by the rather broken method of doing a "df /target". I assume that you have a large root partition, of more than 100 gb in size, and probably the df output does not

Re: Installer fails on initrd-tools

2004-06-08 Thread Joey Hess
It seems that base-installer is failing in some way that is not usual and is not trapped with a useful message. I suggest you use the shell on the second console to edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-installer.postinst (with nano) and add a "set -x" line near the top of the program, then the third virtua