Package: installation-reports Boot method: Daily netinst CD Image version: April 22 Date: April 24 Machine: Advantech PCA-6187 (i865G) Processor: P4 3.0GHz Memory: 512MB Partitions: 509M swap (pri), 8GB root (pri), 11GB data (log) Output of lspci and lspci -n: I can get this if anyone is interested. There were no problems with hardware detection. Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] 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: [O] Reboot: [O] Comments/Problems: I got the same error message reported here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/02/msg00693.html I was able to work around it in the same manner -- editing the base-installer.postinst file. I'll attach the gzipped syslog; grep for "no_codename". I have a few suggestions concerning the apt configuration: 1. If I choose to manually enter a Debian mirror URL, then please also prompt me to provide a URL for the security mirror. I'm firewalled and the only accessible mirror is my local apt-proxy server. Currently apt freezes for a long time trying to access security.debian.org directly, and I have to switch to console 2 and kill the http retrieval process. Then I have to edit sources.list later to correct the security entry. 2. The default sources.list doesn't include "contrib" or "non-free". In many cases I need these (mainly for nvidia drivers). It would be nice if the installer could write these into the sources.list file by default, or at least allow me to choose to do so. 3. Most end-user systems do not need "deb-src" lines in the sources.list -- maybe these could be commented out by default? Let me know what you think. -- graham
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