install trouble: bad d-i Packages file

[David McGaffin]

Thanks, Colin.  I'm looking forward to putting Ubuntu on my laptop.

- david

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 14:23 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 02:31:54PM -0400, David McGaffin wrote:
> > I am trying to install Warty.  The install repeatedly hangs at the "Load
> > installer components from CD" step with the console message:
> > 
> > user.info.anna[42767]: Not a directory
> > user.info.anna[42767]: WARNING **: bad d-i Packages file
> > user.info.anna[42767]: grep: /cdrom/dists/stable/Release: Not a
> > directory
> 
> This usually indicates DMA problems, which I believe are fixed in our
> most recent kernel images. I'll see about updating the kernels used in
> the installer.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]
>