Bug#488434: installation-reports: somewhat problematic install on Thecus N2100

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

* Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd@debian.org> [2008-06-28 22:19]:
>   The big issue was that i couldn't configure a custom mirror or even select a
>   country mirror. After some debugging it turned out that the newt frontend
>   immediately returned backup instead of actually showing the UI bits. The
>   relevant debconf debugging output is:
> 
>   Jun 28 16:38:30 debconf: --> GET mirror/country
>   Jun 28 16:38:30 debconf: <-- 0 manual
>   Jun 28 16:38:30 debconf: --> INPUT critical mirror/http/hostname
>   Jun 28 16:38:30 debconf: <-- 0 question will be asked
>   Jun 28 16:38:30 debconf: --> INPUT critical mirror/http/directory
>   Jun 28 16:38:30 debconf: <-- 0 question will be asked
>   Jun 28 16:38:30 debconf: --> GO
>   Jun 28 16:38:30 debconf: <-- 30 backup
> 
>   Using the text frontend instead of the newt frontend let me finish the
>   installation just fine.

Frans, Jeremy, Colin, etc: can one of you comment on this?
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Martin Michlmayr
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