Re: debian-installer now available in Ports
Btw, you can check /var/log/syslog from a second terminal (Alt+F2) to see if there are any error messages related to "choose-mirror".
If you find something there, let us know.
Adrian
> On Apr 14, 2017, at 3:32 PM, Linux User #330250 <linuxuser330250@gmx.net> wrote:
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>> Am 2017-04-14 um 13:08 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
>>> On 04/14/2017 12:00 PM, Linux User #330250 wrote:
>>>> Am 2017-04-14 um 10:25 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
>>>> Yes, the choose-mirror package currently doesn't support unstable [1]. You can easily enter a normal
>>>> mirror URL like "ftp.debian.org" and "debian/" as a sub-directory and it should work.
>>> Should I install again and try that or can we just assume that this will work?
>> It should just work, but you can try nontheless. We're happy about any feedback
>> we can get.
>
> No, this did not work. I chose "enter by hand" and added ftp.at.debian.org (at for Austria), which worked when I added it manually after the installation, and /debian/ (the default). It gives the same error. Changing the base address to ftp.debian.org didn't help either. BTW, I used http (not https, not ftp).
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> I think it has to do with "unstable".
> Is there anything I could try in a shell? Where does the installer store the mirror information? I assumed /etc/apt/sources.list, but when I open a shell (from within the installer, since I use it now over SSH) it tells me that there is "no such file or directory"...
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