Bug#714470: Problem still exists in 7.3.0 installer

2014-01-28 Thread John Winters
I've just tried to re-install Debian on a NUC and encountered the same problem. IIRC, when I first installed it I used an image on CD and had no issues - the installation went smoothly and everything worked. I recently decided to upgrade the NUC to a 480G SSD, and went for a fresh installati

Bug#522312: Not a fault in the Debian installer

2009-04-03 Thread John Winters
Please close this one. The fault lay with the mirror which hadn't been updated since Lenny's release. The "stable" link still pointed to etch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#522312: debian-installer: Lenny install image for AMD64 puts "etch" in /etc/apt/sources.list

2009-04-02 Thread John Winters
Package: debian-installer Severity: important I just downloaded the installer image for Lenny, called: debian-500-amd64-netinst.iso and used it to do a clean install on an AMD system. It all seemed to run fine but at the end I found I had a hybrid Lenny/Etch system. The kernel was 2.6.26 (ind

Bug#413520: installation-reports: Installation on Mini-ITX (EPIA 800) system completes but fails to boot

2007-03-05 Thread John Winters
Package: installation-reports Severity: important I've been trying a number of times to install Etch on a Mini-ITX based, EPIA 800 system. This box has been running for some time as a diskless workstation running Sarge. I've now put a HDD in it and am trying to install Etch using the network boo

Bug#366715: installation-report: Installer gets stuck if it can't access security.debian.org

2006-05-10 Thread John Winters
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 06:57 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: [snip] > I wonder whether we could have a kind of compromise here: > > -keep the current behaviour when a regular mirror has been chosen > > -at least ask for a proxy for security.d.o when the mirror settings > have been entered manual

Bug#366715: installation-report: Installer gets stuck if it can't access security.debian.org

2006-05-10 Thread John Winters
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 16:38 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > John Winters wrote: > > I'm trying to use the Debian Installer etch beta 2 to install systems > > within a fairly tightly firewalled network. > > > > Although the installer prompts to ask what repository it shou

Bug#366715: installation-report: Installer gets stuck if it can't access security.debian.org

2006-05-10 Thread John Winters
Package: installation-report Severity: important I'm trying to use the Debian Installer etch beta 2 to install systems within a fairly tightly firewalled network. Although the installer prompts to ask what repository it should use for the main packages it then tries to use a hard-coded source (p