On Wed, 16 May 2001 12:13:02 you wrote: > > Uhm, has *anyone* succeeded to install a machine using the woody boot > floppies? So far, I've just met with utter failure. > > Every time I try to install the base system over the network the > machine prints "trying to get package" messages for a whole bunch of > packages, and then returns me to the menu with "Install the Base System" > still as the Next item. > > Virtual terminal 3 contains the message: > > command /usr/sbin/debootstrap woody /target http://http.us.debian.org:80/debian returned 256 > > I can't seem to avoid this. Anyone see anything like this before? > > The downloading seems to succeed. At least, /target/var/cache/apt/archives > is full of packages, but it just won't ever unpack/install them. > > I'm going to completely wipe the machine now and try again.
I had the same problems with the boot floppies as of 2 weeks ago. For right now, I think the best thing to do if you want to run woody is install the potato release, (just the basics) and then do a apt-get dist-upgrade after changing you're /etc/apt/sources.list. I've went through the following here: 1. Upgraded a solid potato with alot of apps installed, then manually installed 2.4.3 with XFree86 4.2 and then 4.3. (that ended up breaking some things...) 2. Tried unstable..., good name. ;) 3. Backed down to a solid potato, with a custom kernel and iptables. 2.4.4. Staying here for awhile. I did have #1 running for a few weeks, but I couldn't use apt-get update and upgrade since it insisted on replacing alot of packages, including my install of xfree that I grabbed from xfree86.org. I'll end up playing with it some more after I get my new box put together. Dana
