On Tuesday 30 January 2007 05:59, Brian May wrote: > Frans> I guess you mean goodbye-microsoft.com? > > Oops! How did you guess? Let's leave it at "by chance". > No, this was automatic configuration, presumably with dhcp (either > that or black magic <grin>). Which installation option did you choose? The default one, "expert" or "auto"? If you selected "auto", that might explain some of your comments. Robert: Could you provide a bit longer description with the "auto" option in grub? Running at critical priority is normally really only used for preseeded installations, although I can see the attraction of using it with goodbye-MS... Back to Brian and the log you provided... Jan 29 09:39:13 main-menu[1135]: INFO: Menu item 'localechooser' selected Here I can see you selected English/Australia. Jan 29 09:39:39 main-menu[1135]: INFO: Menu item 'ethdetect' selected Jan 29 09:39:41 main-menu[1135]: INFO: Menu item 'netcfg' selected Network configuration seems to have gone fine. Jan 29 09:39:47 main-menu[1135]: INFO: Menu item 'choose-mirror' selected At this point you should have had the option to select a mirror and you should have had the option of entering a proxy. By default Australia should have been selected as country for which to display available mirrors. But, these questions _are_ skipped and default values (ftp.debian.org) used if you chose the "auto" option. Jan 29 12:16:48 in-target: Get:504 http://ftp.debian.org etch/main libmyspell3c2 1:3.1-18 [27.5kB] Jan 29 12:16:58 in-target: Err http://ftp.debian.org etch/main libmyspell3c2 1:3.1-18 Jan 29 12:16:58 in-target: Error reading from server - read (104 Connection reset by peer) OK. Here is the root cause of the error you saw. Just a simple glitch in the communication with the server. Jan 29 13:17:28 in-target: E: Jan 29 13:17:28 in-target: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/myspell/libmyspell3c2_3.1-18_i386.deb: Error reading from server - read (104 Connection reset by peer) Jan 29 13:17:28 in-target: tasksel: aptitude failed (255) Jan 29 13:17:28 main-menu[1135]: WARNING **: Configuring 'pkgsel' failed with error code 1 Jan 29 13:17:28 main-menu[1135]: WARNING **: Menu item 'pkgsel' failed. Jan 29 13:56:09 main-menu[1135]: INFO: Modifying debconf priority limit from 'critical' to 'medium' Ah! Here it is, so you did select the "auto" option! I can see that from the fact that priority was "critical" (last line). That exactly explains why you did not get the mirror questions: at critical priority the installer _will_ use black magic whereever possible. Jan 29 13:56:18 main-menu[1135]: INFO: Menu item 'pkgsel' selected So you selected package selection again. Good. Jan 29 14:10:46 in-target: The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: Jan 29 14:10:46 in-target: libmyspell3c2 Jan 29 14:10:46 in-target: The following NEW packages will be installed: Jan 29 14:10:46 in-target: iceweasel iceweasel-gnome-support libmyspell3c2 Jan 29 14:10:46 in-target: 0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Jan 29 14:10:46 in-target: Need to get 27.5kB/9083kB of archives. After unpacking 27.6MB will be used. Jan 29 14:10:46 in-target: Writing extended state information... Jan 29 14:10:47 in-target: Jan 29 14:10:52 in-target: Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org etch/main libmyspell3c2 1:3.1-18 [27.5kB] And the problem with the libmyspell3c2 package was resolved on the second try. So, you hit one minor problem and maybe should not have selected the "auto" option. But all in all this looks like a successful installation. Thanks a lot for providing the additional information. Cheers, FJP
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