Scott Howard at "Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:04:35 -0500" wrote: SH> 1) When selecting mirrors during install, I sometimes get "WARNING: SH> the mirror does not support the specified release (wheezy)" (see SH> attached screen shot) in console #4. But if I wait a few minutes and SH> try again, it connects to the mirror (see other attached screenshot). SH> I'm selecting http://ftp.us.debian.org, maybe a network or server SH> problem?
ftp.us.debian.org is an alias to many servers [1] so it should be possible that one of them is not a complete mirror a the time of your installation. This is the reason why all tools that test mirror speed try all aliases in turn. Bye Stefano [1] $ host ftp.us.debian.org ftp.us.debian.org has address 128.61.240.89 ftp.us.debian.org has address 35.9.37.225 ftp.us.debian.org has address 64.50.233.100 ftp.us.debian.org has address 64.50.236.52 ftp.us.debian.org has address 128.30.2.36 ftp.us.debian.org has IPv6 address 2610:148:1f10:3::89 -- Stefano Canepa aka sc: s...@linux.it - http://www.stefanocanepa.it Three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris. Le tre grandi virtù di un programmatore: pigrizia, impazienza e arroganza. (Larry Wall) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k3q73lnv....@lepre.stefanocanepa.home