Jack Carroll wrote: > Supplement the "DEBOOTSTRAP ERROR" message with something like > "Go back, and start the Base System install again, or select a faster > mirror." > This simple hint could greatly reduce frustration for a Debian newbie. > > Similar advice would be desirable if downloading times out during > "Loading components of the Debian Installer". Actually a download failure during loading of d-i components behaves much better: it lets you know there was a download problem, and allows you to retry that download, or even change your mirror in the middle of the download. Adding that degree of polish to the deboostrap stage is harder, since debootstrap does the downloading on its own and communicates errors to us over a fairly limited channel. -- see shy jo
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