Re: errors installing demudi

Last Sunday 28 November 2004 20:56, airplays55@xxxxxxxxx was like:
> Trying to install DeMuDi... I reboot (after installing
> LILO because grub didn't work) and I get errors during
> the Debian base configuration, won't let me get out of
> that menu.

What hardware are you using? Processor? Chipset? This is a machine that you've 
already been running some OS on?

> I saw a message that not all packages were able to be
> installed and try "apt-get install -f", which I did,
> then I see:
>
>   the following NEW packages will be installed:
>   gsfonts-x11 gv xserver-common (etc etc)
>
> Then for each listed package I see something like the
> following:
>
> unpacking xfonts-75dpi
> dpkg: error processing
> /cdrom/pool/main/x/xfree86/xfonts-75dpi_4.3.0.dfsg.1-4_all.deb
> (--unpack):
> unable to stat './usr/X11R6/lib/X11' (which I was
> about to install): input/output error
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

It would be useful to know exactly what doesn't install, I'm wondering if it's 
something related to a specific bit of hardware.
Does CTRL+ALT+F3 give any clues?

cheers

tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk