Re: Stretch net install on EeePC - unable to resolve mirror host address
On Sunday 18 February 2018 17:19:48 Roger Price wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2018, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> ~ # cat /etc/resolv.conf
> >> search rogerprice.org
> >> nameserver 8.8.8.8
> >
> > Does the resolv.conf still contain that data?
>
> Yes
>
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2018, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> debian.proxad.net is 212.27.32.6. If you ping that?
> >
> > Yes, works great even from a rock64 out in the garage.
> > Do a "sudo route -n" and see if you get a valid gateway, "UG"
> > address. Then describe your hardware arrangement precisely please
>
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2018, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday 17 February 2018 19:48:20 Rodary Jacques wrote:
> >> I had this kind of problem with free (i.e. proxad) repository which
> >> isn't any more (bust was in 2016) on the mirror list, and had to
> >> replace it with <http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/> -not a ftp
> >> server- in /etc/apt/sources.list. Salut. Jacques
> >
> > debian.proxad.net pings just fine from a stretch install on an arm64
> > machine:
> > rock64@rock64:/media/slash/home/rock64$ ping debian.proxad.net
> > PING debian.proxad.net (212.27.32.66) 56(84) bytes of data.
> > 64 bytes from debian.proxad.net (212.27.32.66): icmp_seq=1 ttl=50
> > time=107 ms
>
> ...
>
> > 4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3003ms
> > Something is wrong with his gateway, or dns.
>
> Thanks for all your comments, I repeated my attempt to install as
> follows:
>
> Hardware: EeePC1201K (AMD Athlon 1000MHz, 1Gbyte)
> External CD/DVD reader Samsung SE-S084.
> Router: TP-Link 450M Wireless N Gigabit Model No. TL-WR1043ND. No
> IPv6
>
> "Graphical expert install"
> 1. Configure the keyboard (AZERTY)
> 2. Detect and mount CD-ROM
> 3. Load installer components from CD
> [X] choose-mirror
> 4. Detect network hardware
> Missing firmware files are: rt2680.bin Load? [X] No
> 5. Configure the network
> enp0s4: Silicon Intergrated Systems [SiS] 190 Ethernet Adapter
> wlp2s0: Ralink Corp: RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
> (wireless) 6. Choose enp0s4 as primary
> 7. Auto-configure networking? Yes
> IPv6 + DHCP, set hostname and domain name.
> 8. Ctl-Alt-F3 to /dev/tty3
> ~ # route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
> Iface default 10.218.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
> enp0s4 10.218.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
> enp0s4 9. ~ # ip address
> ...
> 3: enp0s4: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 ...
> link/ether 20:cf:30:10:43:fd brd ff:...
> inet 10.218.0.100/24 scope global enp0s4
> ...
> 10. ~ # ping -c3 debian.proxad.net
> PING debian.proxad.net (212.27.32.66): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 212.27.32.66: seq=0 ttl=57 time=38.838 ms
> ...
> 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
> 11. Ctl-Alt-F5 Graphical install
> Choose a mirror of the Debian archive
> http, debian.proxad.net
> 12. Ctl-Alt-F4
> Last line shows EeePC hung on
> choose-mirror[4246]: DEBUG: command: wget --no-verbose
> http://debian.proxad.net/debian/dists/stretch/Release -O - |
> grep -E '^(Suite|Codename|Architectures):'
> 13. Ctl-Alt-F3 to /dev/tty3
> ping ftp.fr.debian.org is successful, but
> hangs on command wget --no-verbose
> http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/Release -O - |
> grep -E '^(Suite|Codename|Architectures):'
> 14. I repeated 13 with more verbosity:
> wget http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/Release -O -
> | grep -E '^(Suite|Codename|Architectures):'
> --2018-02-18 20:50:31--
> http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/Release Resolving
> ftp.fr.debian.org... 212.27.32.66, 2a01:e0c:1:1598::2 Connecting to
> ftp.fr.debian.org|212.27.32.66|:80... Connected HTTP request sent,
> awaiting response
> ... 15 minutes go by ...
> Read error (Connection timed out) in headers.
> Retrying
>
> It looks as if the network setup in the EeePC is correct, but wget
> fails. Any suggestion would be very welcome, Roger
Check the list, I think wget was mentioned as a problem child child
within the last 2 or 3 weeks. Is the machine fully uptodate?
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