"Warning" failure in chroot . . .
From: David A. Cobb (Superbiskit_at_cox.net)
Date: 07/18/04
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 21:12:16 -0400 To: Mark Pictor <mpictor@yahoo.com>
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Mark Pictor wrote:
>Well I guess I'm gonna reply to two people at once...
>
>--- "David A. Cobb" <Superbiskit@cox.net> wrote:
>
>
>> <>Not a very successful day!!!
>>
>> Trying to go with the fact that TUN driver sees my
>> network controller.
>>
>> Two occurrences of "Warning" Failure trying to run
>
> <>Warning *doesn't* mean failure... and having to use
> <><>--force is a bad sign. Are you sure you're doing it
> <>the right way? (I can't recommend anything, not sure
> <>what you are doing.)
> <>
Which makes two of us. Anyway, I'm just quoting what's in the message
that pops up. The whole thing is from the installer. And it is a
Failure because immediately DEBOOTSTRAP exits with Error Return-Code 1.
I see I wasn't very clear: the DEBOOTSTRAP error is constant. Twice it
was preceded by the "Warning" Failure . . . message.
>>chroot /target dpkg --force-depends \
>> /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_3.0.2_i386.deb \
>> (same basepath)/base-passwd_3.4.1_i386.deb
>>
>>
>> and several more where all I get is "debootstrap
>>exited with an
>>error (return code 1)"
>>
>>I was getting the debootstrap errors before, seeming
>>to be related to
>>the way I mounted my partitions.
>>
>>
>
>??? Once you've got things set up, you should use
>/etc/fstab - try 'nano /etc/fstab' as root, to edit
>it.
>for one-time mounts, use 'mount -t vfat /dev/hda1
>/mnt/windows' where hda1 is a partition [1], and
>/mnt/windows is an empty folder which you have
>permissions for. You must be root to use mount this
>way.
>
>
Ur, Yeah. I'm doing the install from CD's. I start out by Initializing
and mounting partitions into which the new system is to be installed.
In my first attempt, it seemed some bad selections on what to mount
where led to problems -- at least the problems went away when I stopped
trying to be so damn clever. The only thing I'm doing that isn't a
simple agreement with the script suggestions is mounting a 2Gb partition
for /tmp, instead of leaving it in the rather undersized primary (/)
partition. Undersized is relative -- about 1Gb. I have 12Gb for /var
and 8Gb for /usr.
>See comments above, and [1] below.
>To make sure your kernel can use it, (-bf24 almost
>certainly can) type 'cat /proc/filesystems' and read
>the output... one of the lines should be vfat, which
>is fat32/long file names.
>
>
A-Ha! Yes, they mount fine. As I say somewhere above, some early
failures led me to the erroneous conclusion that VFAT wasn't functional.
>>> <>PLEASE don't tell me that the evil beast of Redmond has buried
>>> VFAT under a patent claim!!
>>
>They are trying!!!
>
>
Not surprised. Microsoft delenda est!
>It might be... if you have a spare hard disk laying
>around, I would do an install on it, and work out the
>kinks/practice... If you haven't done much
>personalization or got much data on the debian
>partition, I would just erase it and try again.
>
>
Practice, that I'm getting. It's good for my soul to learn to control
my frustration. Or something like that.
Sure, we all have a spare HD laying around.
>[1] partitions - use something like cfdisk to find out
>which number corresponds to which partition;
>alternately just go through the numbers (hda1 thru
>hda9) until you don't get an error that it isn't vfat,
>then do 'ls /mnt/windows' and see if everything looks
>right.
>
>
Actually easier than that: there's a menu choice in the installer for
"VIEW PARTITION TABLE" If I could get it into a text file I could post
the results here. I can probably do a df to get it, using the ash shell
on the CD.
-- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr. Life is too short to tolerate crappy software!
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