On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 23:30:52 (+0000), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 02:55:56PM +0900, Mailing List wrote: > > I believe I've found a bug in the DVD ISO installer logic which affects > > 11.11 and earlier but in theory could affect 12.x as well. > > > > Description: > > > > A default installation of Debian 11.11 (Bullseye) from the official DVD ISO > > fails with the following error: > > > > Installation step failed > > An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing item again > > from the menu, or skip it and choose something else. The failing step > > is: Select and install software > > > > This failure occurs during the "Select and install software" stage. The > > root cause is an attempt to install security updates from the security > > network repository *even when the user selects the default "No" to using a > > network mirror*. > > > > Steps to Reproduce: > > > 1. Boot the Debian 11.11 DVD ISO on an Internet-connected PC > > 2. Proceed through the installation process. > > 3. When prompted "Use a network mirror?", select the default "No". > > 4. Continue with the installation. > > 5. The installation will fail at the "Select and install software" step > > with the aforementioned error. > > > > Expected Behavior: > > > > The installation should succeed whether the user uses the default "No" to > > using a network mirror or manually sets a network mirror to use. > > > > This is also the case in Bookworm - Debian 12. > This is potentially intended logic`, though probably not for the reasons you > think. If you want to perform an entirely offline installation as suggested > further down - you _need_ to start the installation with no Wifi network > connection attempted / no network cable connected.
I wonder why I couldn't reproduce this with the 12.9 netinst then. You would think that there's far more reason to insist on preferring http: over cdrom: when so little is available on the installation medium, compared with a 12.9 DVD. I configured the network, used it to configure the clock, installed the base system, configured the package manager with no mirror, included the security/release updates, accepted standard system utilities, and all the packages (far fewer than normal, of course) were then installed from cdrom:—nothing from http:. I aborted at the Grub question. So can you explain the intended logic here, particularly as you say we're not expected to be able to reason it out. > > Jan 31 05:35:42 in-target: Get:1 > > http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security InRelease > > [27.2 kB] This is what I can't replicate when "Use a network mirror? No" is selected. Cheers, David.
