Re: Problems installing Debian 4.0

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

Alexander Thiel <alex.lists@freenet.de> writes:

> I am trying to install a Debian from a 4.0r0 netinst CD-Image. The
> installation fails reproducibly, however.
>
> I believe that this is due to the package file_4.17-etch2 being
> present on both the regular distribution server and the security
> server - but with different checksums!
>
> Please compare the entries for the packages "file" and "libmagic1" in 
>
> ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/etch/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 
>
> and 
>
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
>
> Am I missing something or is there really a misconfiguration in the
> current Debian archive?

You seem to be right, this has been reported in
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=438626.  If the whole
installation fails, you may want to increase the severity to
"critical".

A possible workaround is to disable the security server during the
installation, you probably can re-add it after the base system is
installed. 

Cheers,
       Sven