Hello, I have tried to install potato 2.2 r0 from the official CD's onto a completely new drive and am having problems with getting the install to complete.
I booted from the binary CD #1 and went through the setup to install the distro on the new drive. Then after hours of wading through and selecting all the additonal packages I wanted installed I started the "Install" procedure from dselect's initial menu screen. Everything was going fine for a little while but then quite a few packages failed to completely install correctly. Each of these failed packages had this text; syntax error at /usr/sbin/install-info line 122, near ") unless" syntax error at /usr/sbin/install-info line 326, near "unless" Execution of /usr/sbin/install-info aborted due to compilation errors. printed to the screen. I tried numerous things to get the packages to install completely. (i.e. apt-get -f install, apt-get --fix-broken dist-upgrade, dpkg -i <package> ...etc) none of this was successful. The installation aborted each time with the same error. I tried running install-info with the --version arguement and it failed producing the same 3 lines of error message. What is strange is I did an apt-get dist-upgrade on a system with slink installed and the upgrade went flawlessly. I am stuck here. I have spent numerous hours trying to find what is wrong but have come up empty handed. If anyone has any ideas I would be grateful to hear from them. Thanks a lot. Tracy Tilton
