Sid is newer than Lenny... you wouldn't "dist-upgrade" to lenny from sid.

Sid is the new Unstable.. Lenny is the new stable.

Are you totally reformatting/removing all directories before installing (on the destination card, not host OS)?

ETA: Also with 6 times you've been reading/writing that much data.. when was the last time you ran a good FSCK against the partition?

If i fail installation, i always reboot and format the partition (as suggested by installer) and try again.
7th try now going on...

Maybe i should run fsck, thanks

AGAIN....

this time apt get fails to install perl

fsck does not find any errors

8 times in a row, there HAS to be something wrong with my system!

I have tried different mirrors.

Tomorrow i will reflash...

My signature... + when i am able to use it...

Yeah.. I'd say if 8 times it might be the deblet installer but if it fails at a different time every time then I think it might be something with your setup.. which is odd.

Let us know how it goes and if you still have problems after the flash.

I believe it has nothing to do with the insttaller, because i reistalled it.
I am gonna try one more time...

I'm not quite sure what I did, but I originally ran into the problem with the bootmenu.d using INT_CARD instead of EXT_CARD...fixed it and it booted. After it booted the one time, I restarted it and it now acts like it's going to start up putting out the info up to "pivot root and starting /sbin/...", but then just reboots into Maemo before the little deblet splash icon appears.

ookay, i flashed my tablet, installed feature upgrades, and deblet installer.

2 times debootstrap failed to download adduser.

3rd try after reflashing:

Debotstrapped with my ubuntubox, installed using TAR.GZ option in installer.

Guess what happened?

Error "out of disk space"

Installer extracted bootstrap.tar.gz on top of the maemo.

So i have to reflash again.

I don't even know how many times i have tried to install deblet, but who cares of it, no matter how long it takes, i WANT deblet!

FINALLY!!!
There was nothing wrong with the installer, exept that strange bootstrap.tar.gz error. ???

After flashing bootstrap failed many times because it was unable to download adduser.
So i done bootstrapping with my ubuntubox, and when deblet installer asked, i selected to mount, not format. And it installed with no problem. Maybe something is wrond with debootstrap package? My 32 bit ubuntu had no problem when bootstrapping from same server.

The most important thing for me is that my deblet finally works

I have been thinking about trying to compile some ubuntu-mobile packages. Just for fun. I have never compiled anything.

To me compiling is a piece of cake, it's getting the compiled programs that work turned into functional debs that gets me pulling out my hair. I don't know how these guys make so many...