On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Anders Winnberg wrote: > Comments/Problems: I partitioned the SCSI disk using Partition Magic. > During the installation I chose Manual partitioning and merely gave the > mount points for the two ext3-partitions (/boot and /). During the > "Install base system" I got the following error message: > > Debootstrap warning: > Failure trying to run: chroot /target dpkg --force-depends --install > var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_4_i386.dev > var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.5.11_i386.deb [...] > All this is gibberish to me. Could you please help?
The root of the problem seems to be the in these messages: cannot create /target/debootstrap/debpaths: read-only file system tar: couldnt remove old file: read-only file system It seems that the way you did the partitioning or assigned the mountpoints was somehow flawed. It is extremely unlikely that there is a problem in the installer itself. Did you let partman format the / and /boot filesystems? If not, you really should. If you cannot solve the problem yourself with this info, please send the full syslog for the installation (from /var/log/). Make sure you compress the file using gzip! Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]