Hi, Yuriy Grishin <ygrishin@pyramidheadgroup.ca> (2014-03-03): > Subject: installation-reports: netinst fails to query network mirrors > Package: installation-reports > Severity: normal > Tags: d-i > > Dear Maintainer, > * What led up to the situation? > An attempt to install Debian from a netinst image. > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > Answered "YES" when installer asked me "do you want to use a network > mirror?". > * What was the outcome of this action? > An error "bad mirror" or "architecture is not supported" randomly. > * What outcome did you expect instead? > Query that mirror and fetch the file list. any chance you could extract /var/log/syslog when that happens so that we have a better idea of what's actually tried, and so that we get a better idea of the failure mode? If you have a near-by machine with IP $foo, you could listen using nc: nc -l -p 1234 > syslog and send /var/log/syslog from d-i to the other machine this way: nc $foo 1234 < /var/log/syslog Mraw, KiBi.
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