Re: Debian won't install via businesscard

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:31:20 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
>> From:
>> 
>>  http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/
>> 
>> I downloaded the file debian-6.0.5-i386-businesscard.iso and burned it
>> onto CD, then tried to install Debian on my pc.  Everything went fine
>> until the `install the base system' step, when the following error
>> message appeared:
>> 
>>  Debootstrap Error
>>  Failed to determine the codename for the release
>> 
>> and it was impossibile to continue.  I also tried copying the iso file onto
>> usb pendrive and also tried to install Debian onto another machine but the
>> error occurred again and again.  Please help if you can.
>
> It can be a problem with the burned image or the ISO itself, then :-?
>
> Anyway, I recently read that Debian is thinking about dropping the 
> business card installation media, so consider starting to use the mini-CD 
> instead :-)


>From debian-boot I got no reply.  I also tried with another iso file:
debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso, downloaded from

  http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso

, but the problem occurred again.

Rodolfo