Re: failure in installation

[Dries Kimpe <Dries.Kimpe@rug.ac.be>]

>     When attempting to install the base system, the following
> error message occured:  ``Malformed Release file'', prefixed
> by the ftp site I was pointing to.  Anyway, the error message
> appeared time and again.  It appeared immediately after I pressed
> Enter at the previous screen, i.e., it did not actually attempt
> to bring the Release file.  Moreover, when I (deliberately) disconnected
> the network cable, exactly the same message appeared.
>     I saw in a mailing list (don't remember which, sorry), that
> if one had network definitions problem, then there is no way out
> of this bug, but to re-install from the very beginning, including
> formatting the partitions.  I did so, and this time I had no single
> problem until the base system installation, but once again I received
> the above error message.  Once again, it appeared instantly, so it
> seems to me it did not even attempt to access the network.

    I had the same problem with my install last week, but as I thought it
was a *FILE* problem I just changed the apt-sources list. (Edit sources by
hand, instead of using the default (US) mirrors).
 
   I used ftp.de.debian.org I think, and the problem didn't reoccur & I
got no problems of any kind. 

  Dries