Maybe for the next debian installer we could use possibly customised apt-spy to automatically select the mirror. The only problem with apt-spy that i see is that it takes ages if you run the whole thing, but it can be given options to only try 5 or 25 sites. Or if we are going to have different modes (i.e. expert novice) then novice could use apt-spy and expert could have the option of overriding it. Glenn