On 2017-05-17, RavenLX <rave...@sitesplace.net> wrote: > > > On 05/17/2017 12:20 PM, Robert Hardy (r.hardy) wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I received this message when installing from the Debian 8.8 netinstall >> ISO (debian-8.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso) >> >> Initial error was for ftp.uk.debian.org <ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org>. I >> tried several others (including ftp.fr.debian.org >> <ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org> and mirror.bytemark.co.uk) with similar errors. >> >> Continued with the install, which appeared to go OK otherwise. Found >> that two lines were commented out in sources.list, post install: >> >> # jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile' >> >> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify: >> >> #deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main >> >> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify: >> >> #deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main >> >> Uncommented these, and received the following errors on running apt-get >> update: >> >> Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org jessie/main Translation-en >> >> Err http://ftp.uk.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en >> >> Err http://ftp.uk.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en >> >> Err http://ftp.uk.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en >> >> 404 Not Found [IP: 78.129.164.123 80] >> >> Fetched 168 kB in 6min 3s (463 B/s) >> >> W: Failed to fetch >> http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/main/i18n/Translation-en >> >> 404 Not Found [IP: 78.129.164.123 80] >> >> E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old >> ones used instead. >> >> * Is this a known issue? >> * Should I have any concerns about stability / missing files follow this? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Rob > > I had that happened. I then changed all the http://ftp.* to > http://httpredir.debian.org. I learned of this here: > > https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList#Example_sources.list > > Then I apt-get update and it worked fine from there.
Just a FYI: the recommended redirector is now http://deb.debian.org/. -- Liam
