On 11/06/11 16:33, Bret Busby wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:04:36 +1000 >> From: Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: [Debian 6] Unable to install Debian 6.0.1 - no supporting >> mirrors >> found >> Resent-Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:05:13 +0000 (UTC) >> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> >> On 10/06/11 15:37, Bret Busby wrote: >>> Hello. >>> >>> I have been trying to install Debian 6.0.1 amd64 version, with a >>> firmware netinst iso (from >>> http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/ >>> >>> >>> ), and, at the package manager setup stage, every mirror that I have >>> tried within Australia, and a couple in the USA, return the error >>> "mirror does not support version (squeeze)".
And yet (as the output below shows) they apparently do. You're very patient - how many months have you been trying this now? >>> <snipped> > :) > > Hello. > > I have just switched back to the computer onto which the Debian 6.01 > amd64 version is to be installed (I have to disconnect the monitor from > this computer, and connect it to the other computer, as the monitor that > I had connected to it, appears temperamental, and the monitors are now > apparently irreplaceable, with all new monitors now being the bodgy > widescreen things), and written down the content of the last text screen > displayed, which I found at <CTRL><ALT<F4> (It is <CTRL><ALT<F5> to > return to the GUI installation screen), and, rather than typing all of > the content of the screen, I think (but, with my little amount of > knowledge, am not sure) that, as suggested, the problem may lay in the > URL format for the repositories. > > for example, for AARNet, the line from the screen (without the > date/timestamp at the start of the line), is > > choose-mirror[6418]: DEBUG: command: wget -q > http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian//dists/squeeze/Release - O - | grep > -E '^(Suite|Codename:' Origin: Debian Label: Debian Suite: stable Version: 6.0.1 Codename: squeeze Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 13:04:59 UTC Architectures: amd64 armel i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc Components: main contrib non-free Description: Debian 6.0.1 Released 19 March 2011 > > and for UWA, is > > choose-mirror[6608]: DEBUG: command: wget -q > http:ftp.uwa.edu.au/debian//dists/squeeze/Release -O - | grep -E > '^(Suite|Codename):' Origin: Debian Label: Debian Suite: stable Version: 6.0 Codename: squeeze Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:29:37 UTC Architectures: amd64 armel i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc Components: main contrib non-free Description: Debian 6.0 Released 05 February 2011 > > Now, as I have said, I am of little knowledge in Linux and Debian, but, > to me, the double slash between "debian" and "dists", in the URL's, > makes me wonder whether that might be the source of the problem. I've thought the same in the past - not sure how it works, but it does. Both those wget requests *should* have worked. I have pasted the headers from those repositories above. Try this in your browser:- http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian//dists/squeeze/Release It works, Someone who knows choose-mirrors better than I might want to check this, but I "suspect" those wget lines should work, and return the following:- Suite: stable Codename: squeeze > > I have tried to transcribe the contents of the screen, as accurately as > possible, (as I said, apart from the date/timestamp at the start of each > line). They usually scroll pretty quick. When I've had errors with repositories it's been pretty obvious when looking at the messages. Which leads me to believe the problem lies elsewhere. > > If what I have suggested, is not the source of the problem, I could type > in the whole of the content of the last screen of text that is > displayed, but I thought that, if I am correct in my proposition, then > there is no point in typing in the remainder of the content. Wise. > > I note that the content of the screen, does not include any error > message to the effect "Network is unreachable", so indicating, in the > absence of such a message, that the network connection appears to be > functioning properly. Agreed. > > -- > 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 > > .................................................... > > Do you have any live Linux CD/DVDs on hand? 32-bit is fine. Cheers -- Tuttle? His name's Buttle. There must be some mistake. Mistake? [Chuckles] We don't make mistakes. -- 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/4df35536.20...@gmail.com
