Bug#378078: failed sarge install on laptop

2006-07-12 Thread Brent Burton
Package: installation-reports Boot method: netinst CD Image version: 3.1r2, downloaded 7/7/06 Date: 7/10/06 Machine: Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop Processor: Pentium II, 300MHz Memory: 160MB Partitions: hda1: /boot 100MB, hda2 swap 300MB, hda3 / 7.5GB Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = O

Bug#378078: failed sarge install on laptop

2006-07-13 Thread Joey Hess
Brent Burton wrote: > The log on VC 4 (Alt-F4) shows that a grep for the packages is > failing in the "anna" process. Specifically, at line 48 of > /usr/lib/debian-installer/retriever/cdrom-retriever > is the statement "suite=$RET". $RET is an empty string. Thus, > grep is searching for the file

Bug#378078: failed sarge install on laptop

2006-07-17 Thread Brent Burton
Joey Hess wrote: Brent Burton wrote: The log on VC 4 (Alt-F4) shows that a grep for the packages is failing in the "anna" process. Specifically, at line 48 of /usr/lib/debian-installer/retriever/cdrom-retriever is the statement "suite=$RET". $RET is an empty string. Thus, grep is searching fo

Bug#378078: failed sarge install on laptop

2006-07-18 Thread Geert Stappers
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:24:37PM -0500, Brent Burton wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > > >The problem is that your laptop is not reliably reading the CD and the > >Release file cannot be read. This generally results in the code that > At this point, of the 12 reboots of the netinst CD as well a