Not to sure what you were doing. I do not recognize many of the commands you listed that you used.
However, yesterday I successfully installed a v13 system on a VPS server using this set of instructions:
The instructions do not use the easy install script. Instead, it is a manual method for installing the system that has been working for me for the past several months.
It may be helpful to read the entire thread, because some other users have also posted solutions to common problems found on some other linux images.
Hope this helps.
BKM