On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 19:33:41 +0100, andreas glaeser wrote: > Several attempts to install with a single CD and a network mirror > failed. The installation proceeds as expected until the system tries to > download packages from the selected network mirror, then there are > disk- and network- accesses indicated on the bottom of the > Vbox-window, but there is no real progress , no matter how long one > waits. I tried this both in NAT-NIC-Mode of VirtualBox and in the > bridged network-adapter mode. I remember dimly that there were similar > problems when installing Debian version 5 on the same system with a Sun > branded version of VirtualBox. So I downloaded a DVD installation > Image and tried installing from that without a network > mirror, again in NAT mode, but the result was not different from the > first attempts: There are accesses indicated both to the DVD image and > to the harddisk, but no progress-bar is shown. The system seems to > hang. The next try was with a disconnected network cable and manually > statically configured NIC, then chose standard system with graphical > desktop environment and failed again. It finally worked when I installed > only the standard system without a graphical desktop environment. Then I > could enable bridged Networking for the virtual machine and use > aptitude to install gdm and the xfce4 metapackage and all the rest. > The missing progress bar is 605938/603021. The installation should actually be working fine other than the missing progress bar. Thanks for your report. Cheers, Julien
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