On Wed, 15 May 2002, tilman utz wrote:
> hello list, > > recently I installed woody from cds on my machine (i386, qwertz-kbd, > bios-clock on GMT from previous linux (suse6.4) installations). > > All went on quite smoothly, until after configuring the root password > and a default user. after displaying the message 'loading > /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz' thee system ran into an infinity loop of > setting timezone and whether one wishes to have md5 passwords and a > shadow file. > > Except for that the systems seems to be running ok (i.e. I'm able to > switch to another console and log in either as root either as user). > > Any helping hint would be greatly appreciated > thanks > tilman > You can use a boot floppy setup. Make sure you point to http.us.debian.org. The base-confg package obtained in this manner has been fixed. Presumably the fix has propagated to other mirrors but you never know since woody seems to be in a deep freeze. -walter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
