[clug] Debian Installation Fail
Alex Satrapa
grail at goldweb.com.au
Thu Oct 13 20:02:45 MDT 2011
I'm having trouble getting my Debian-Installer to work. I'm pretty sure it was working fine a week or so ago, but today I get an error, "The installer failed to download a file from the mirror."
From startup:
- Chose a language -> English/Australia/en_AU.UTF-8
- Select a keyboard layout -> Do not configure
- Detect network hardware
- Configure the network -> Automatically using DHCP
- Choose a mirror of the Debian archive
- Download installer components -> falls over
The error message (with ASCII graphics and colours removed) is:
> [!!] Download installer components
>
> The installer failed to download a file from the mirror. This may be a problem with your network, or with the mirror. You can choose to retry the download, select a different mirror, or cancel and choose another installation method.
>
> Downloading a file failed:
> *Retry
> Change mirror
> Cancel
What's confusing me is that it's downloading the Release and Release.gpg files just fine, and with no further requests going through the proxy it's claiming that a download failed. Squid reports:
… TCP_HIT/200 86027 GET http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian//dists/lenny/Release
… TCP_HIT/200 1505 GET http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian//dists/lenny/Release.gpg
I've tried every mirror in the list:
- ftp.au.debian.org
- mirror.aarnet.edu.au
- ftp.monash.edu.au
- ftp.uwa.edu.au
- mirror.eftel.com
- (etc)
I get the same error message if I try installing Squeeze.
My Ubuntu Hardy Heron installer works just fine.
Any ideas?
Alex
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