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

[Paul Cupis]

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).

Try expert mode install and see if you can skip the security update (or
config the mirror/proxy as you wish).

Going back to your original problem, you may be able to tell your BIOS
to emulate PATA for the purposes of the install.
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