Bug#700120: debian-installer: kfreebsd-i386 needs manual editing of /etc/network/interfaces

[Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org>]

On 09/02/13 20:48, Scott Howard wrote:
> The installers could not connect to the mirrors. The warning screen
> popped up telling you that it could not connect and asked if you
> wanted to choose another mirror.

Thanks for explaining.  Although I can't reproduce the issue myself,
with beta4 netboot images and picking a random selection of US/UK mirrors.

qemu provides a supported em0 device, which was clearly working for you
in your installed system (after manually fixing /etc/network/interfaces)

So I wonder if there's anything odd about your network setup, e.g. did
you configure an HTTP proxy?  Do you have anything like a transparent
proxy on your network?

Did you stick to the qemu default mode of -net user?  That fakes a DHCP
service for the guest and uses IPv4 only.  Not sure exactly how DNS
works in this mode...

There may have been some clues in the Alt-F4 console of the installer
when the warning popped up.

Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org