Remote install of Debian failing

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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 07:17:46 -0400
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Hello,

Some time ago I did a successful remote install of Debian overtop of RH9. I
took copious notes. This time, however, I am unable to get the install to
work. I have tried two different methods.

(1) using http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/DebianChrootInstall
while running dpkg-reconfigure --install base-config the system says that it
has run out of space while downloading the package lists. I have edited
/etc/apt/apt.conf and set the APT::Cache-Limit 1000000000;
No matter what size I set, it always dies on the same package
(qt3-assistant). I have even tried changing the sources.list with teh same
result.
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing qt3-assistant (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList
/var/state/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: Unable to write mmap - msync (12 Cannot allocate memory)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

(2) using http://www.underhanded.org/papers/debian-conversion/remotedeb.html
In this one, all seems to be ok except when I try to install the kernel
image. It refuses to make the initrd part of the of image. The failure
notice reads:
/usr/sbin//mkinitrd: Cannot determine SCSI module
I also noticed that although lilo is installed, there is no /etc/lilo.conf
file.

Your suggestions would be very much appreciated. The box was cracked earlier
this week by someone sending out loads of spam a la .br style. Of course it
happened while I was in a car driving home from an on-site job. I tried to
do a rescue job on the machine, but I obviously missed something as they got
back in and nuked the it beyond repair.

regards,
emma

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