[TriLUG] Fun Debian install error

[Bill Vinson]

On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 10:44 AM, Vestal, Roy L. wrote:

> Ok, I've installed Debian "testing" (the names confuse me) distro from 
> net.
> I've rebooted. It's now looping in the setup of the timezone and if I 
> want
> MD5 passwords and shadow passwords.
>
> What do I do now?

I found this also. It is at least in x86 and PowerPC and I was told that 
it is a known bug that is being addressed before woody, 'testing' 
becomes the official stable platform. Debian is pretty good about not 
releasing until things REALLY work :)

The easiest thing is to install potato, 'stable', and upgrade to woody. 
I can help with that tomorrow at the IF if you would like. The problem 
with stable is that it has less drivers and if you have a weird ethernet 
card or something, it won't be very useful... My netgear FA-311 in one 
system (Or some such) is a natsemi and is only in newer kernels so 
potato can be a pain...

The other option is to kill all the initial setup processes and hand 
configure the system (I did this on my iBook), but it does take more 
work and more comfort with Debian's setup.

Bill
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