Gullible Jones
November 7th, 2008, 06:11 PM
Hello guys and gals,
Because of a bad experience I had with a Debian Testing install, and because I figured Intrepid Ibex would be more stable than Debian Testing, I tried a mini install of Intrepid. However, I ran into the exact same error as on Debian - base-passwd won't install because of a permission denied error (!), so the whole installation is aborted.
How can I avoid this? Is there a way to tell the installer to force the install, for instance? Or is this some kind of massive bug in the repos that I have to wait for a fix for? Whatever's going on, it's quite a showstopper.
(I suppose I could try using a full ISO instead of a minimal one, but I'd rather not; that would saddle me with a bloated Gnome desktop, and I think I'd still be hit with this bug once I started upgrading stuff.)
Because of a bad experience I had with a Debian Testing install, and because I figured Intrepid Ibex would be more stable than Debian Testing, I tried a mini install of Intrepid. However, I ran into the exact same error as on Debian - base-passwd won't install because of a permission denied error (!), so the whole installation is aborted.
How can I avoid this? Is there a way to tell the installer to force the install, for instance? Or is this some kind of massive bug in the repos that I have to wait for a fix for? Whatever's going on, it's quite a showstopper.
(I suppose I could try using a full ISO instead of a minimal one, but I'd rather not; that would saddle me with a bloated Gnome desktop, and I think I'd still be hit with this bug once I started upgrading stuff.)