On Wed, 08 May 2002 16:11:58 -0500 "D. Michael McFarland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The easy way, it now seems to me, should be to start from scratch with > boot floppies from woody, skipping the brief potato phase of the > installation. But as I understand it, there are no boot floppies or > netinst CD images available for woody that don't suffer the > configuration-stage infinite loop that's been discussed here lately, The problem is not with the boot floppies, but rather with the "base-config" package that is then pulled from one of the mirrors. > and my attempts to circumvent it by swapping around inittab and > inittab.real haven't worked (a little knowledge...). This would stop the system from starting the faulty "base-config" package. However, it may be helpful to install the "base-config" from unstable and then run it manually to finish the installation. This can be done rather easily by configuring a "sources.list" file listing both the testing and unstable sources, then configuring a default release version for your system such as: -- /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10default APT::Default-Release "testing"; then udpate your package list and pull the "base-config" package from unstable dselect update apt-get install base-config/unstable HTH -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
