On Wed 20 Jun 2012 at 16:07:51 -0400, Bruce A. Johnson wrote: > I've tried two different Debian 6.0.5 network installation CDs today using > three different mirror sites, and I don't get past the apt installation. > When I look at pseudo-tty 4, the log says that the "mirror does not support > the specified release". The lines immediately above this failure show that > this command was executed: > > wget -q http://cdn.debian.net/debian/dists/squeeze/Release -O - | grep -E > '^(Suite|Codename):'
Could be bad mirror sites, but three seems rather excessive. > The machine doing the installation seems to have network connectivity, or > I would have expected complaints when it was trying to get the time from > the network, plus it was a working system under Debian 5 before I started > this morning. Does anyone have any suggestions? Name resolution failure? Check your nameserver with cat /etc/resolv.conf on tty2. Check its operation with wget http://cdn.debian.net The installer does not visibly complain on tty1 if the ntp server is not reachable, so this is not a good check of network connectivity. However, tty4 and the syslog will record that the service is not known. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120621092130.GU30016@desktop
