netboot oddity - "bad archive mirror"

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:59:40AM -0800, Adam Lydick wrote:

> Using netboot images from the following URL as of March 14th 2005 has
> some problems: 
> 
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hoary/main/installer-i386/current/
> 
> When it comes time to select a mirror, I always end up with the "bad
> archive mirror" message. Peeking at the 3rd (?) virtual console shows
> that choose-mirror was able to wget the Release file from the main site,
> but seems to show an unexpanded country code when attempting to retrieve
> the second file from the local mirror.
> 
> It looks something like:
> http://${countrycode}archive.ubuntulinux.org(null)/the/rest/of/the/url
> 
> This occurs with both the default install and server. It doesn't seem to
> be an issue of network connectivity -- ifconfig reports a proper address
> and I was able to wget Google's index page from the console.
> 
> I tried again with server-expert and everything seems to work properly
> if I manually choose my country code ("US" in this case).
> 
> Please let me know if I should file this in bugzilla (which package?) or
> if further information is needed.

Please file this in bugzilla, choose-mirror would be a reasonable starting
point.

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 - mdz