#1 2018-05-08 11:21:12

m712

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Installation forces https mirrors, cannot use http mirrors

Hello,

I am behind a corporate firewall with a custom SSL MiTM certificate, and I wanted to install BunsenLabs in a VM. However during the "install from network" section of the setup, the install fails because it cannot verify the certificate of debian servers. I tried to set it to a HTTP mirror of debian, however it still fails and syslog on VT4 shows that mirror-select is still using https:// even though I specified http:// on the mirror. Any ideas on how to work around/fix this?

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Installation forces https mirrors, cannot use http mirrors

You can try the debootstrap + bunsen-netinstall method, as outlined in this thread:

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=3800

^ That should work if you can connect to the internet from our "live" environment.

Note though that there are no VirtualBox guest thingies available in Debian stretch so I would strongly recommend KVM instead.

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m712

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Re: Installation forces https mirrors, cannot use http mirrors

Thanks. Unfortunately I have to use Windows as the host (Autodesk programs) which is the primary reason I'm installing BunsenLabs in a VM (escape to sanity). I will try the debootstrap method, thank you.

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Gaucho

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Re: Installation forces https mirrors, cannot use http mirrors

That is a pickle. You can't run it from USB because you need to be able to go back to your work quickly.

Is there another distro that works (Debian stable!) that we can help you "bunsenfy"? Having secure sources is important to us, we're not going to compromise that for a VM install behind a corporate firewall.

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cloverskull

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Re: Installation forces https mirrors, cannot use http mirrors

You may be able to get a corporate ca-cert and put it into the system truststore (I recently did this with a gentoo VM).

See if https://askubuntu.com/questions/1007233 … e-in-linux helps?