Bug#250975: Net install finds Release file, subsequently fails to find same file

[Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>]

Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: beta4, 2004-04-30,
    <http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta4/sarge-i386-netinst.iso>
uname -a: Linux begonia 2.4.26-1-686 #1 Sat May 1 18:04:05 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: 2004-05-26
Method: Floppy, net

Machine: Toshiba Portege 7020CT
Processor: Intel Pentium II 366 MHz
Memory: 128MiB
Root Device: IDE HDD
Root Size/partition table: 6GiB
Output of lspci:
bignose@begonia:~$ lspci
pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 03)
0000:00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200 [MagicGraph 256AV] (rev 12)
0000:00:05.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:05.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:05.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:05.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
0000:00:07.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics 56k WinModem (rev 01)
0000:00:09.0 Communication controller: Toshiba America Info Systems FIR Port (rev 23)
0000:00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10)
0000:00:0d.0 Multimedia controller: C-Cube Microsystems Cinemaster C 3.0 DVD Decoder (rev 02)
bignose@begonia:~$ lspci -n
pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices
0000:00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:7192 (rev 03)
0000:00:04.0 Class 0300: 10c8:0005 (rev 12)
0000:00:05.0 Class 0680: 8086:7110 (rev 02)
0000:00:05.1 Class 0101: 8086:7111 (rev 01)
0000:00:05.2 Class 0c03: 8086:7112 (rev 01)
0000:00:05.3 Class 0680: 8086:7113 (rev 02)
0000:00:07.0 Class 0780: 11c1:0440 (rev 01)
0000:00:09.0 Class 0780: 1179:0701 (rev 23)
0000:00:0c.0 Class 0401: 125d:1978 (rev 10)
0000:00:0d.0 Class 0480: 123f:8888 (rev 02)


Base System Installation Checklist:

Initial boot worked:    [O]
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network:         [O]
Detect CD:              [ ]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Create file systems:    [O]
Mount partitions:       [O]
Install base system:    [E]
Install boot loader:    [ ]
Reboot:                 [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Comments/Problems:

After configuring the network via DHCP, I entered all the information
for the mirror (ftp.au.debian.org) and proxy (local network,
http://proxy:3128/).

All traffic to the mirror succeeded fine, getting the Release files and
presenting a list of "stable", "testing", "unstable" to choose from.  I
chose "testing".

The remaining drivers and pieces of debian-installer were downloaded
from the mirror.  Then an error was presented saying the Release file
could not be downloaded from the mirror.  No attempt to reconfigure the
mirror settings would allow any further downloads from the mirror.

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Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>