Comment 10 for bug 659632

I ran into the following today too. Looking at the debian installer source (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/CheckOut) it looks like support for the "enter information manually" strings have been removed in favour of "manual" . So the example from William at response #8 should be:

d-i mirror/country string manual
d-i mirror/http/countries string manual
d-i mirror/http/hostname string yourmirror-here.org
d-i mirror/http/mirror string yourmirror-here.org
d-i mirror/http/directory string /ubuntu
d-i mirror/suite string natty
d-i mirror/http/proxy string

And Christian Orth (#9) would not work because the string should be "manual" and not "manual de".

I am attaching the contents of "git show bb1bdcaa4eecfc47b69420c0687eb3c2bc8e1d01" from the source. The changelog message was: 'Drop backwards compatibility for preseeding "manual" mirror selection. Change was introduced in Lenny.
One release is enough for backwards compatibility support.'

I am guessing that there is a lot of documentation out there that needs to be changed now.