I sent this one to debian-user but got no response. Hopefully someone here can help me.
> Hello. > > I've been trying to set up (again) Debian linux. I've been trying to do this with floppies and trying to download the > files I need through the net. I'm setting up the 'testing' distribution. > > I start up and compile the module for my ethernet card into the kernel and I'm able to configure the network via DHCP. > > All works fine until I start installing the base system. The packages download and all but after a while an error comes > up telling me something about not being able to run chroot on target/. I've tried this a few times and one time I executed > a shell and changed the permission of the target/ folder so everyone could access it (chmod ugo+rwx target). That time it > did get a little further but in the end came the same error just in a different place (that time the error message was a > little more ambiguous and I couldn't quite figure out which folder or file it was referencing). > > I'm wondering if this is a known bug in the installation or if it's specific to my system? Is there any way to work around it? > > Kindest regads and hoping for help, > Stefan Freyr Stefansson. > > p.s. it should be noted that I'm a Linux newbie.
