Hi Sebastian, On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:04:12PM +0100, Sebastian Niehaus wrote: >Package: debian-installer >Severity: grave >Tags: d-i >Justification: renders package unusable > >Dear Maintainer, > >yesterday I downloaded the current Netinstall iso image for stretch to >install stretch on a new maschine (Laptop with wired ethernet and wifi) > >everything worked fine including DHCP configuration. But whe I tried to select >a debian >mirror i was prompted there was an error due to a network problem or to an >mirror >lackingg the requested debian version or platform although it was available on >that mirror. > >Tried to find a workaround: > >it became clear there was some problem with DNS resolition: ping >www.google.com failed because of >failure to resolve the domain name.
ACK, this has been identified as a problem already - see #851790. Hopefully will be fixed in a build shortly. > >On mirror selection I chose to enter the data manually and I entered the IP of >my mirror server >instead of its FQDN and it worked than. > > >/etc/resolve.conf had the DNS server my DHCP server announces - no idea what >went wrong. > > >Thank you very much, everything else worked flawless for me. > > >Sebastian > > > >-- System Information: >Debian Release: 9.0 > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing') >Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > >Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) >Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) >Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash >Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html