Have a minor problem with Debian/Shane CD...

[Tony Baechler]

Gaijin wrote:
> 	Had a minor difficulty while dist-upgrading to Lenny.  My ISP
> took that opportunity to knock me offline for a billing error, and I
> totally trashed my system.  I've had to do a full re-install from the
> Shane SpeakUP CD, and couldn't find a way around the kernel deletion
> bug, so I couldn't run tasksel.   Does anyone know the package name to
> install to give minimal functionality to the system?  I keep getting
> the error:
>
> UDF-fs: No VRS found
>   


Hi,

I am not a developer so I'm just guessing here but I read the tasksel 
README recently because of my own problems I was having. First, it 
sounds like you need UDF filesystem support which is probably in the 
kernel or kernel modules. Second, I think the task you want is "base" or 
similar, but that task is hidden. Specifically, the install is supposed 
to run tasksel to install the hidden tasks for you but that obviously 
didn't happen. I'm not exactly sure how to get around this since it 
won't show up in the list of tasks to install, but you could try:

tasksel install base

Also, you could look in the "base" section of 
http://packages.debian.org/ to see what packages should be there. I 
think you might want base-files and maybe base-config, but I'm not sure 
about that. On my grml system which is basically Sid, it has the 
base-files package installed. I'm not remembering how to get tasksel to 
list every task it knows about (maybe tasksel list?) but you'll know 
when you find it because you'll see Arabic close to the top. Maybe you 
need to look at the tasksel-data package.

If all else fails, you could just install every task and hope it brings 
in necessary dependencies. I'm sorry this isn't a definitive answer but 
hopefully this should point you in the right direction.