[clug] Debian Installation Fail

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

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)