On 25/08/2018 at 02:45, Alessandro Selli wrote:
> On 24/08/2018 at 21:27, Jaromil wrote:
>> dear Arnt,
>>
>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2018, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
>>
>>> ..why Devuan 1.0 when you can have Devuan ASCII 2.0.0 stable release?
>>> https://devuan.org/os/debian-fork/ascii-stable-announce-060818
>>> which _may_ solve your problem.
>> I doubt we can say "just use ASCII" as an answer to this problem,
>> since we have declared Jessie an "LTS" release, we should have this
>> sorted and stick to our menu. True is that ASCII just works very well,
>> but then we cannot just leave people who want to use Jessie
>> behind.
>>
>> I hope we can figure out, I haven't yet looked at the screenshots sent
>> by Gaston
>   He started the graphical install, selects the English language, then
> the United States as the timezone location, then the United States as
> the location of the Devuan mirror.
>
>   Next he chose us.mirror.devuan.org as the package manager mirror (the
> other choice being auto.mirror.devuan.org) and the error windows shows
> up with:
>
> ##########################################################
> # Bad archive mirror
> # An error has been detected while trying to use the specified Devuan
> archive mirror.
> #
> # Possible reasons for the error are: incorrect mirror specification;
> mirror is not available
> # (possibily due to an unreliable network connection); mirror is broken
> (for example
> # because an invalid Release file was found); mirror doe not support the
> correct Devuan
> # version.
> #
> # Additional details may be available in /var/log/syslog or virtual
> console 4.
> #
> # Please check the specified mirror or try a different one.
> ##########################################################
>
>
>   I'd suggest Gaston to do check is some error message in
> /var/log/syslog could help pinpointing the source of the error and to do
> try selecting another repository server.  And of course to check if the
> network is configured correctly, if he can resolve and ping
> us.mirror.devuan.org.

  Sorry, I did not check all the screenshots: he did.

  I'll try to send the console output, if I can OCR the screenshots quickly.

Alessandro



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