[SLUG] Re: Debian ate my partition table

[Angus Lees <gus@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At Wed, 15 May 2002 06:33:08 +1000, Michael Still wrote:
> On Tue, 14 May 2002, Angus Lees wrote:
> > At Tue, 14 May 2002 22:12:11 +1000, Michael Still wrote:
> > > No, the install stopped when it said it couldn't find libpopt. It
> > > surprised me, because this was my first time installing Debian, and I
> > > expected it to just work... The Redhat installer is much sexier IMHO.
> >
> > when you say "stopped", i presume it gave you some error message and
> > allowed you to retry?
> 
> Well, I was installing of this rediculously large 8 CD woody set that a
> friend copied for me.

unless you will never see the internet again, you only really need the
first cd or two.. the packages are sorted by popularity (see the
popularity-contest package).

> He has successfully installed from it, so perhaps the copy is
> dodgy. The installer retried, but failed anyway.

any error message given?

-- 
 - Gus