Sorry if this is getting out of hand; I'm not experienced with reporting bugs.
In reply to Don Wright: > The secret is to scroll to the top of the list of countries > and pick "enter information manually". That's not the issue. The issue is that it expects me to enter a "server" and a "path" part of the URI with no hint how these are going to be merged into a sources.list entry. Now my setup doesn't come with a complicated URI, yet no combination seemed to work. Eventually I had the idea to look at the generated sources.list file after entering the data (darn obvious, yes, but it took me a few hours to think of that) and I managed to enter the right data into the fields that would result in a sources.list entry similar as to what I have on working machines, namely deb http://zwerg:9999/main/ etch main However, this still didn't work. The installer (or apt-setup or whatever else is in charge at that time) connected to zwerg (or tried to, at any rate) but never retrieved the file. Progress stalled completely (I've filed another bug report about being unable to abort or cancel this). Only *after* I manually killed the apt-get process, the following line appeared in the log: "Failed to fetch http://zwerg:9999/main/pool/main/p/popularity-contest/popularity-contest_1.34_all.deb Connection failed" Interesting enough, switching to the other console I was able to retrieve the file using wget. Why apt-get stalls and wget works is beyond me; I've seen no further error message in the logs that would give me a hint. All this was using the debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso from Wed, 20-Sep-2006. Things became a little more interesting when I tried the debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso from today (Fri 22-Sep-2006): It would actually use my proxy to retrieve the base system, but when it came to the "select and install software" step it would again stall as described above. Now, it may well be that my apt-proxy is responsible for all of this; but I still blame the installer (or apt-setup or whatever) that it doesn't come up with a helpful error message allowing me to track down the actual problem. regards, Schnobs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]