After some heavy problems I had to re-install my system. Now, my system doesn't get through the first reboot. I don't get back in dbootstrap

Everything seems ok untill I enter run-level 2. De system log daemon gets started. Then PCMCIA services get started, which doesn't since I have none. I know this will be removed in after-boot steps of dbootstrap, so I don't believe that's a huge problem. Then inetd is started. Then something calls /sbin/termwrap which doesn't exists on my system. INIT starts spawning, that's it.

Re-installing brings back this error over and over. Since terminal 2 and 3 are available, I used apt-get one of them to install base-config which contains the file /usr/sbin/termwrap. I copied termwrap to /usr/sbin and hoped to get the system working. Now, my system starts dpkg-reconfigur many times on tty1. I've also seen instances of sh and stty on tty1.

I'm trying to install the potato release, since I can't read root.bin from woody. This also means that the base2_2.tgz isn't available at official debian servers. Help on either this reboot problem or the root.bin problem of the woody install is welcome.

I hope someone knows what to do.

Gilion

Does anyone of you know if I can install woody using root.bin from potato? That would be a fast 'n dirty way to solve my problem.

In other words, is the root filesystem of debian version specific?

Gilion

you could install potato and dist-upgrade to woody, yes

That's the method which fails every time because of some problems with termwrap, probably due to some problems with the base2_2.tgz.

I was thinking about using:

the woody rescue floppy
the potato root floppy
the woody driver floppies
the woody base.tgz by network

Is this possible?

Gilion