Debian for S390 (lenny ) installation problem

[Mike Kirjanov]

Hi!

1. We are trying to install Debian for S390 (lenny ) distribution on the virtual machine (via z/VM 5.4 on the real mainframe ) and via Hercules 3.05 on the Linux Intel box.
All our attempts is ended with the "WARNING **: bad d-i Packages file " message. We are using local repositories of the
5.0.3, 5.0.2 (stable ) and unstable verion (12.10.09 ) via http/ftp protocols. We are doubt what is wrong ? All our attempts to install the previous version of the Debian for S390 (etch ) were successful and we hadn't any installation problems at all.

2. We have a great interest to the OpenOffice package on the Debian for S390 but as we understand it was not included into the etch distribution so we are need with the lenny distribution that contains full OpenOffice package (with Writer,Base,Draw and so on ).

Thanks.

[Frans Pop]

Post by Mike Kirjanov
1. We are trying to install Debian for S390 (lenny ) distribution on the
virtual machine (via z/VM 5.4 on the real mainframe ) and via Hercules
3.05 on the Linux Intel box. All our attempts is ended with the "WARNING
**: bad d-i Packages file " message. We are using local repositories of
the 5.0.3, 5.0.2 (stable ) and unstable verion (12.10.09 ) via http/ftp
protocols. We are doubt what is wrong ? All our attempts to install the
previous version of the Debian for S390 (etch ) were successful and we
hadn't any installation problems at all.

As far as I know installing Lenny with current images should work fine.

It sounds as if your local repository is invalid, incomplete or corrupt in
some way. Have you tried installing using official mirrors?

Can you send us the system log (/var/log/syslog) for the installation?
Maybe we can get additional info from that.
Please make sure you gzip the syslog.

Cheers,
FJP