Hi,

I was trying to do a net install of Debian 3.1 (Sarge) on the spare space on my main PC. It all appeared to be going smoothly, until it would not load GRUB (about the 2nd last step). At that point I switched to the virtual console and viewed the log file, and to my horror found that there were errors all the way though the install, every time the installer tried to do an update on a package.
Error was simailar to:
"Could not connect to ftp://.................(1.0.0.0) ...."
This brough back memories of errors I had on my 2nd box (Ubuntu 5.10) which I have since resolved.

A bit of History.
I am networking via a 4 port switch on a NB5 router/modem. My network is set up for DHCP, and the router provides DNS proxy in that mode.
My main pc runs XP, with IP via DHCP and atomatically obtaining DNS (this works - end of story).
My Ubuntu box is set up for DHCP. In most cases, there wasn't a problem, unless I was using firefox or doing apt-get (or Synaptic). They were attempting to use my router address (192.168.1.1) as the DNS, and I couldn't connect to sites (could ping the domainname OK).
I resolved firefox by disabling IPv6 DNS, then later I set up static DNS (while keeping DHCP) which resolved the apt-get errors to the repositories. The errors I got were the same as above.

The problem at Hand!
Now that I am trying to put Sarge onto the main pc, I am struck by the same problem I suffered on the Ubuntu box, except this time it is not a working system, but under the control of the installer. Is my only solution to configure the network manually while I install, or is there something I am missing?

Howabout downloading full images and installing from those? Seems the easiest solution to me, but some Debian gurus might have better ideas.. (:

Thanks Artanicus,

The two DVD's are over 8GB which is my monthly limit (and it's only the start of the month). It also takes a lot of time, even at 512kb/s. However, I had thought of that as a last resort.
Anyway, that just gets around the issue, it doesn't fix it. I am still wondering why I get IP of 1.0.0.0 while doing apt-get update?

that is weird, yes..

What I meant with the image install was that perhaps download just the basic CD image, 700 megs.. The first CD probably has enough stuff to get the system up enough for you to apply your fix and then continue the rest with the netinstall..

But, as you said, its a get-around, not a fix. IMHO theres something wrong with your network setup if such a situation can even occur..