edgy dpkg installation and other errors

[Felix Miata]

On 06/10/09 09:50 (GMT+0200) Krzysztof Lichota apparently typed:

> Felix Miata napisał(a):

>> I've been having trouble all week installing edgy, attempting on various
>> hardware having nothing more in common than 2 HDs, ATI graphics, and i440BX
>> chipsets. As a result, one motherboard and CPU I pitched in the dumpster.

>> I finally got an ftp install ...

> Have you checked CD for defects (using option in live CD boot menu)?

I never use the live CD to install. The last (FTP) install referred to above
(and many others with similar installation failures) began with the little
8M boot.iso CD, which IIRC has no kind of menu, nor any md5sum file to test
it with.
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