hggdh: you might need to set mirror/country to "manual" these days, not to "enter information manually"
hggdh: but in any case, for debugging, it's best if I get a full (not excerpted) syslog of an installation run with DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer passed as a kernel parameter
So... I changed mirror/country to 'string manual' and again PXE-booted the system -- it went all the way through, no error. I will try again as it was.
a chat with cjwatson pointed me to a change:
hggdh: you might need to set mirror/country to "manual" these days, not to "enter information manually" DEBUG=developer passed as a kernel parameter
hggdh: but in any case, for debugging, it's best if I get a full (not excerpted) syslog of an installation run with DEBCONF_
So... I changed mirror/country to 'string manual' and again PXE-booted the system -- it went all the way through, no error. I will try again as it was.