Re: Problem with installing the base system

[Bob Proulx]

> > I'm trying to install Debian 3.0 on my system but I cannot install the base
> > system.
[...]
> If your machine has a network connection, you might have better luck with 
> a network install. 

Agreed.  If possible to do so then I highly recommend the network
install.

  http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/

I have been using the "LordSutch.com ISOLINUX mini-ISO image" link
which currently will take you here.

  http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/debian-cd/

I have had good luck with the woody-i386-1.iso image.  It is 185MB and
is self contained to install a small working system with only the
minimum of required packages installed.  That minimum system is then
used to do a network installation from the woody mirrors.  You can
change the sources.list file to select "unstable" / "sid" if desired.

The installation process will allow you to use either or both or none
of "tasksel" and "dselect".  For new users I suggest using "tasksel"
which will get you going with a minimum of trouble and will install a
large selection of stuff for you.  I recommend avoiding "dselect".  My
preference is neither and I manually install my own list of packages
after the system is up.  I log in as root and run apt-get install on
my package list.

These are my personal recommendations and I am sure other people with
have different ones.

Bob



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Re: Problem with installing the base system

[Chris Tillman]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 06:19:07PM +0200, Stephan van de Haar wrote:
> I'm trying to install Debian 3.0 on my system but I cannot install the base
> system.
> 
> The installation procedure stops with an error: "failure while configuring
> base packages".
> This error is repeated 5 times. After that I get another error: "debootstrap
> has exited with an error (return value 1)"
> 
> After this error let the system write a report file to my disk. The
> following line failed:
> "/usr/sbin/debootstrap --boot-floppies --arch i386 sid /target
> file:/instmnt"
> 
> Then I removed the file awk and I tried to run this line manually.
> Everything is going fine until the system tries to install the following
> packages:
> 
> "aptitude" and "lilo"
 
It looks like you're installing from a CD. Which CD is it? It's installing 
from the sid distribution, which is odd. And those packages seem to be 
missing from the CD, I guess.

Detailed messages appear during the base installation on Alt-F4.

If your machine has a network connection, you might have better luck with 
a network install. 

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Problem with installing the base system

[Stephan van de Haar]

I'm trying to install Debian 3.0 on my system but I cannot install the base
system.

The installation procedure stops with an error: "failure while configuring
base packages".
This error is repeated 5 times. After that I get another error: "debootstrap
has exited with an error (return value 1)"

After this error let the system write a report file to my disk. The
following line failed:
"/usr/sbin/debootstrap --boot-floppies --arch i386 sid /target
file:/instmnt"

Then I removed the file awk and I tried to run this line manually.
Everything is going fine until the system tries to install the following
packages:

"aptitude" and "lilo"

I've had some problems with my MBR a few times before, so I write my hard
disk empty with Zeros (with the dos-app Wipe from IBM). After that I still
have the same problem, I cannot configure the Base System.

I've already tried to use another kernel, like 2.2.10 and 2.4, and I
disabled some options in my bios (Like anti-vir and shadowing) that can
cause problems, but nothing helps.

I've installed an old version (7.1) of the slackware release on my system
and that just work fine, but I want to run Debian.

Here is some detailed information about my system:

-
CPU: Intel Pentium III EB 600 @ 630, 140 Mhz FSB (I've already tried to
install at 600 MHz)
Mem: 512 MB SDRAM 133 MHz
Video: ATI Radeon 32 MB DDR 166 @ 183 MHz. AGP 4x
Sound: Creative Sound Blaster Live! 1024
Input: ps/2 keyboard and mouse
Mainboard: Chaintec 6ATA4, Via 649x northbridge, 686A soutbridge, Bios:
14/05/2001
Harddisks and IDE devices:
 hda: Seagate ST313021A 3.03 13 GB (this is the one where I want to install
Linux)
 hdb: Seagate ST330630A 3.21 30 GB (some Windows FAT32 LBA partitions)

hda partition table:
  hda1:  10 GB Linux Ext2 or Ext3, primary (I already tried to make this
partition < 8GB)
  hda2:  2,5 GB Linux Ext2 or Ext3, primary
  hda3:  400 MB Linux Swap, primary


I really hope somebody can help me with this problem...

Stephan

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