Debian 6.0.5 not on mirrors?
 

I've tried two different Debian 6.0.5 network installation CDs today using
three different mirror sites, and I don't get past the apt installation.
When I look at pseudo-tty 4, the log says that the "mirror does not support
the specified release". The lines immediately above this failure show that
this command was executed:

wget -q http://cdn.debian.net/debian/dists/squeeze/Release -O - | grep -E
'^(Suite|Codename):'

If I run this command from another workstation in the same network, I get
this output for the command:

Suite: stable
Codename: squeeze

The machine doing the installation seems to have network connectivity, or
I would have expected complaints when it was trying to get the time from
the network, plus it was a working system under Debian 5 before I started
this morning. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!
--
Bruce A. Johnson
Herndon, Virginia


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Debian 6.0.5 not on mirrors?
 

On Wed 20 Jun 2012 at 16:07:51 -0400, Bruce A. Johnson wrote:

> I've tried two different Debian 6.0.5 network installation CDs today using
> three different mirror sites, and I don't get past the apt installation.
> When I look at pseudo-tty 4, the log says that the "mirror does not support
> the specified release". The lines immediately above this failure show that
> this command was executed:
>
> wget -q http://cdn.debian.net/debian/dists/squeeze/Release -O - | grep -E
> '^(Suite|Codename):'

Could be bad mirror sites, but three seems rather excessive.

> The machine doing the installation seems to have network connectivity, or
> I would have expected complaints when it was trying to get the time from
> the network, plus it was a working system under Debian 5 before I started
> this morning. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Name resolution failure? Check your nameserver with

cat /etc/resolv.conf

on tty2. Check its operation with

wget http://cdn.debian.net

The installer does not visibly complain on tty1 if the ntp server is not
reachable, so this is not a good check of network connectivity. However,
tty4 and the syslog will record that the service is not known.


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