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.
>
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