On 05/31/2011 10:12 AM, Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote: > I boot up the live image, select "Live" from the boot menu. Once booted > I dbl-click on "Debian Installer". It launches, asks me things (all > defaults) and installs the system fine. Then I'm presented with "Debian > installer main menu", with the "Configure the package manager" step > highlighted, presumably because that step failed. Running "Configure the > package manager" again takes about a second, but I get no indication > about whether it passed or failed. The highlighted task doesn't move > forward. If I forcibly move on to "Install the GRUB boot loader on a > hard disk", I get to a working system, but with only a "deb cdrom:" line > in sources.list.
Unfortunately, what you're probably running into is a battle between the live image and the installer about what to do with the network. The live image will configure the network one way (usually NetworkManager), then the installer will attempt to configure it its own way (using ifupdown, dropping connection in the live system). There are a couple of possible workarounds I can think of (but have not tested): 1. disconnect the network in the live system before doing an install and see what happens 2. run the installer with the network still up in the live system, but don't configure the network (d-i doesn't really give you an option to do this; choose a network interface you know will fail because it's not plugged in). since the live-installer installs from the contents of the image, it doesn't actually need the network. unfortunately, configuration of apt and the network then becomes a post-install step the user has to deal with later. Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
