[Mageia-discuss] Network install cannot get mirror list

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op vrijdag 06 januari 2012 23:54:21 schreef Luca Olivetti:
> Al 06/01/12 22:12, En/na Maarten Vanraes ha escrit:
> > Op vrijdag 06 januari 2012 21:30:54 schreef Luca Olivetti:
> >> Al 06/01/12 21:23, En/na Luca Olivetti ha escrit:
> >>> I suppose that I can manually specify a mirror (didn't try yet)
> >> 
> >> Well, that didn't work either
> >> 
> >> unknown host fr2.rpmfind.net
> >> 
> >> with another one
> >> 
> >> unknown host mageia.r0b0t.fr
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Both fr2.rpmfind.net and mageia.r0b0t.fr can be correctly resolved
> >> (using ping) on the ALT+F2 console.
> >> 
> >> I suppose network install is non functional?
> >> 
> >> Bye
> > 
> > unknown host means that there is no DNS resolving
> > 
> > afaik the installer uses wget to grab files; try that in tty2
> 
> As I said in my first message, that's exactly what I tried, hence my
> question.
> 
> Bye

hmmm, maybe in the chroot there is no /etc/resolv.conf ?so maybe chrooted, one 
can't do the wget...

or maybe the mount --bind /dev to the chroot fails (afaik there is a bug on 
that)

is this reproducable?