Re: [LUNI] Debian install frustrations.

From: Jason Helfman (madhatter@telocity.com)
Date: Sun Feb 04 2001 - 21:42:17 CST

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    I've never had an issue installing debian... try irc at irc.debian.org
    channel is debian

    I've never heard of this, maybe a bad floppy

    On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 09:08:31PM -0600, Steven Lembark thus spat:
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    | > I've installed the base system on the root partition and rebooted.
    | > I get the prompts for MD5 and Shadowed passwords. I get the message for
    | > the root password. So I entered one and verified it. But I am taken back
    | > to the root password screen again. An infinite loop, arrrgggghhh!
    | >
    | > Why won't Debian let me continue?
    |
    | in a previous life you were a Micro$osft salesman. installing
    | debian is your purgatory...
    |
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