Bug#703404: debian-installer: wheezy (PXE boot) failes to install busybox and kernel

[Benjamin Guillon <benjamin.guillon@inria.fr>]

>19.03.2013 15:29, Konrad Vrba wrote:
>> I see, but custom kernel without initramfs should work. If there is a
>> way to skip installing busybox, I would appreciate.
>
>That appears to be a wrong solution to a wrong problem.
>
>Something is wrong with the archive mirror system apparently, or with
>the signing keys, I dunno for now.  Any random package might be at
>"fault" here (what if it was one of the core packages, such as glibc?).
>The solution is to fix the network not avoid apparently broken (which
>are actually not broken) packages.
>
>Thanks,
>
>/mjt 

Hello,

I've got the exact same problem when installing Wheezy on a virtual machine powered by KVM on a Wheezy host.
What's strange is that the physical host installation works fine (using a bootable net-install USB key), no busybox installation failure whatsoever.

I use KVM and libvirt packages shipped with debian wheezy and create my vm using virt-install through the french debian mirror.
It works perfectly for squeeze VMs but fails every time with wheezy since march 14th.

I hope it helps.

Thanks,

Ben