[clug] Debian Installation Fail

[Scott Ferguson]

On 14/10/11 13:02, Alex Satrapa wrote:
> 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."
> 
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> 
> 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


Agreed (signature is good also)

> 
> I've tried every mirror in the list:
>  - ftp.au.debian.org
>  - mirror.aarnet.edu.au
>  - ftp.monash.edu.au

I built a Squeeze machine from monash mirror last night.
I used debian-6.0.3-i386-businesscard.iso - what image are you using?


Updated several machines from it today. No problems.
Just checked the Squeeze repository prior to posting this - still no
problems.


>  - 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
> 

Are you running a proxy server??
Did vt4 (in the installer) yield any other clues??

Cheers