[clug] Debian Installation Fail
Eyal Lebedinsky
eyal at eyal.emu.id.au
Fri Oct 14 02:05:54 MDT 2011
Just a note in a different direction: I had problems with installations that failed
because there was no room in /boot to download the installer image.
I had this with fedora but maybe debian also needs such room.
cheers, and good luck
Eyal
On 10/14/11 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."
>
> 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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Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)
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