On 05/03/11 03:10, Bret Busby wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Bret Busby wrote: > >> >> On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Camaleón wrote: >> >>>> I tried installing the 64 bit one, and it does not proceed past the >>>> "Configure package manager" >>> >>> Okay. But now at least you reached the installer. That's makes more >>> sense >>> to me. >>> >>>> Every mirroor that I tried, in Australia, and, in the USA, returned >>>> "Bad >>>> Archive Mirror". >>>> >>>> In Australia, I tried the WAIIA, iinet, UWA, au.debian.org, optus.net, >>>> and other mirrors, in the USA, I tried the MIT, Berkely, debian.us (or >>>> whatever it was), and others, all with the same error message. >>>> >>>> Surely, they can't all be lacking Debian 6 amd64 mirrors? >>>> >>>> I think it should be "Bad Debian 6"! >>>> >>>> This is the most problematic installation process that I remember. >>> >>> That sounds indeed very weird. One mirror can have problems but not all >>> of them. I'd suspect from your Internet connection at the time of the >>> installation. >>> >>> Did you manually specify the mirror's URI or just select one from the >>> drop-down menu? >>> >>> Greetings, >>> >>> -- >>> Camaleón >>> >>> >> >> I selected from the drop down list. >> >> I will, in a few hours, try what someone else suggested - go out to a >> console, and try to ping out, to check the Internet access. >> >> -- >> Bret Busby >> Armadale >> West Australia >> .............. >> > > Went to console, tried to ping; error returned "ping not found". >
As root? <snipped> > > -- > Bret Busby > Armadale > West Australia > .............. > > "So once you do know what the question actually is, > you'll know what the answer means." > - Deep Thought, > Chapter 28 of Book 1 of > "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: > A Trilogy In Four Parts", > written by Douglas Adams, > published by Pan Books, 1992 > > .................................................... Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d71722a.1020...@gmail.com