[Gllug] Installing Debian Sarge on a brand new SATA-based machine

[Ryland, Peter]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 19:09 +0100, John Winters wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 17:16 +0100, Derek Bush wrote:
> > >>> john at sinodun.org.uk 10/05/2006 15:31:44 >>>
> > The problem is, if I tell the installer to use the
> > local mirror and forget about proxies and stuff, then it finds the
> > mirror fine, but then without permission tries to access
> > security.debian.org to see if there are any security updates. 
> > >>> john at sinodun.org.uk 10/05/2006 15:31:44 >>>
> > 
> > Can't you just manually comment out the "deb
> > http://security.debian.org/ ....." line ?
> 
> No.  The accessing of security.debian.org is a specific step in the
> installation process - it's not just doing an "apt-get update" with that
> line in /etc/apt/sources.list (which AFAICS has not even been created at
> the point where the attempted access occurs).

I don't know if this will help you situation, but I found once that the
format requested for the proxy is not the format that is actually
expected by the wget provided by busybox, which is the one that the
installer uses in the early stages.  The format normal wget uses is
something like:

http://[user:password@]proxy:port/

but the format that busybox's wget uses and the one you should use for
the installer is:

[user:password@]proxy:port

Pete


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