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Tue, 03/20/2007 - 10:27pm — Ares (not verified)

Error

I'm trying to install it on a usb drive using knoppix.. and I'm getting the following error:

  1. Knoppix:~# apt-get install linux-image-2.6.18-4-686
  2. Reading package lists... Done
  3. Building dependency tree... Done
  4. linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 is already the newest version.
  5. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  6. 1 not fully installed or removed.
  7. Need to get 0B of archives.
  8. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
  9. Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-11) ...
  10. Running depmod.
  11. Finding valid ramdisk creators.
  12. Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk.
  13. Failed to symbolic-link initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686 to initrd.img.
  14. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (--configure):
  15.  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  16. Errors were encountered while processing:
  17.  linux-image-2.6.18-4-686
  18. E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

any help would be appreciated

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