> mirror_dir is only run if you do manual mirror entry. I assume that > you've somehow gotten base-config to loop through manual mirror entry > repeatedly with your preseeding. Are you sure you were not using > critical priority?
I wasn't. The part relevant to mirror in my preseed file is: #### Mirror settings. d-i mirror/country string enter information manually d-i mirror/http/hostname string ftp.fr.debian.org d-i mirror/http/directory string /debian d-i mirror/suite string unstable d-i mirror/http/proxy string http://proxy.onera:80/ This is what I call "unstable-o.cfg" meaning "install unstable when I am at work and need to use a proxy". I currently have a running install with a similar file with the netinst CD (I'm out of net access) and Arabic language. Something was wrong in my bug report : this was *not* using a businesscard CD image but with a netboot image 2.4 dated 20041013. I forgot this install was made with my automated vmware netboot environment.