The old NetInstall CD is out of data, that's why it is choked when it tried to grab packages.
I burned a new CD with current stable version and it looks fine by far. Thanks, On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 4:40 AM, lina <lina.lastn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Today I tried to install debian from a CD which dated back to 2011. > > > > Everything went fine, > > > > partition -> and then it arrived at the set up the mirror, I just choose > > default and think later changed in the /etc/apt. > > It started to download from that default ftp mirror. > > It was choked there for half a hour, the progress bar didn't proceed and > it > > is said waiting ... > > > > The only thing I could do at that time, was took the CD out and reboot. > > Which I shouldn't have done that. > > > > After reboot, it showed me > > > > grub rescue> > > > > when I tried > > > > grub rescue> ls (hd0, msdos5) > > > > error: unknown filesystem. > > By default, (hd0, msdos5) is a swap partition. > > You need to run "set" and "ls" when you're dropped to a "grub rescue" > prompt in order to determine the "set ..." commands to run. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=SwZoWMY9tzZE60YL6pz=z42jq+d1ycayhckjml-66f...@mail.gmail.com > >