On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 02:45:29AM +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote: > On 24/08/2018 at 21:27, Jaromil wrote: > > dear Arnt, > > > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2018, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > >> ..why Devuan 1.0 when you can have Devuan ASCII 2.0.0 stable release? > >> https://devuan.org/os/debian-fork/ascii-stable-announce-060818 > >> which _may_ solve your problem. > > I doubt we can say "just use ASCII" as an answer to this problem, > > since we have declared Jessie an "LTS" release, we should have this > > sorted and stick to our menu. True is that ASCII just works very well, > > but then we cannot just leave people who want to use Jessie > > behind. > > > > I hope we can figure out, I haven't yet looked at the screenshots sent > > by Gaston > > He started the graphical install, selects the English language, then > the United States as the timezone location, then the United States as > the location of the Devuan mirror. > > Next he chose us.mirror.devuan.org as the package manager mirror (the > other choice being auto.mirror.devuan.org) and the error windows shows > up with: > > ########################################################## > # Bad archive mirror > # An error has been detected while trying to use the specified Devuan > archive mirror. > # > # Possible reasons for the error are: incorrect mirror specification; > mirror is not available > # (possibily due to an unreliable network connection); mirror is broken > (for example > # because an invalid Release file was found); mirror doe not support the > correct Devuan > # version. > # > # Additional details may be available in /var/log/syslog or virtual > console 4. > # > # Please check the specified mirror or try a different one. > ########################################################## > >
Hello Alessandro, > I'd suggest Gaston to do check is some error message in > /var/log/syslog could help pinpointing the source of the error > Between the screenshots you can see the output of virtual console 4, which mentions the error message in the installer. > and to do try selecting another repository server. > Multiple tests were made, and the same result is always obtained. > And of course to check if the network is configured correctly, > if he can resolve and ping us.mirror.devuan.org. > A wired connection was used and it was also tested by pinging and the connection is established. The installation was tested using Jessie's ISO netinstall and CD amd64, in VM and real PC, always with the same result. -- Gastón > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
