Re: restarting a debootstrap install ...

2003-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
Karsten M. Self wrote: > Thanks, noted. > > If the installation gets to the point of package selection and > installation, however, it's possible to restart and continue from this > point? Yes. > At what point in the process can one simply restart? Technically, probably about after you get 50%

Re: restarting a debootstrap install ...

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:33:33PM -0500, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Undortunatly one of the things we've found when working on the Debian > Installer project is that debootstrap is not particularly idempotent. If > it fails it's best to delete every file it wrote to the disk, with the

Re: restarting a debootstrap install ...

2003-11-01 Thread Joey Hess
Undortunatly one of the things we've found when working on the Debian Installer project is that debootstrap is not particularly idempotent. If it fails it's best to delete every file it wrote to the disk, with the possible exception of the apt cache, before starting again. Otherwise you'll likely g

Re: restarting a debootstrap install ...

2003-11-01 Thread Johann Koenig
On Wednesday October 29 at 12:14pm e-bone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An unrelated quetion: > when using apt-cache show or aptitude is there a way to figure out > which release (woody, sarge, etc) a version is associated with ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy gaim gaim: Installed: 1:0.70

Re: restarting a debootstrap install ...

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:14:22PM -0500, e-bone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm trying to install debian from a KNOPPIX cd, > using debootstrap and chroot. > > I'm just curious. If debootstrap goes south for whatever reason ... > (when trying to install sarge it couldn't find one of the files e.