Cyril,
I wanted to beat your argument connecting the troublesome laptop to WAN
directly... and the installation succeeded off the first try! Later
today I swapped the router (Actiontec v1000 with the latest firmware ->
dd-wrt based Cisco) and tried the process one more time, also success.
The
any chance you could extract /var/log/syslog when that happens so that
we have a better idea of what's actually tried, and so that we get a
better idea of the failure mode?
If you have a near-by machine with IP $foo, you could listen using nc:
nc -l -p 1234 > syslog
and send /var/log/syslog f
Subject: installation-reports: netinst fails to query network mirrors
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
An attempt to install Debian from a netinst image.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
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