On Monday 06 May 2002 2:13 am, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 08:51:19PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > > The install proceeds as expected until I get to the point of > > specifying the system time. The HW clock is NOT set to GMT, so I > > select NO for that option. I give my locality as US; Eastern. I then > > create a root account/password and a user account for myself. After I > > do that, the install loops back to ask me again if the HW clock is > > set to GMT. From that point on, nothing I do breaks this loop, and > > all of the above steps just keep on cycling. I have tried the install > > twice, restarting from the very beginning and reformatting all drive > > partitions to ensure there isn't any residual data from a prior > > install that could mess things up; same result each time. > > Yes, this is a known bug in base-config. A fix is in unstable and is > going to be pushed into woody before the release.
How recently did unstable get fixed? I tried a sid install from a jigdo image last week and couldn't get past this. In the end I booted from a potato install disk and when it asked for the additional CDs I put in the unstable ones. Did the job nicely, but I did like what I saw of the new installer. Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net /"\ DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities - AS/400 / iSeries Open \ / Source free test environment tools and others (file/spool/misc) X [this space for hire] ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
