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Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
I recently installed Debian from a netinst CD onto a laptop. The installation
overall went fairly smoothly, except that I was not initially able to access
the network: the ethernet card was correctly recognized and configured,
but my network connection requires an authentication step via a web
browser, and netinst does not include any. So I've had to do a minimal
install from netinst, then use an USB flash drive to copy lynx (and a couple
auxiliary libraries), then authenticate, then finally do the rest of the
install "manually" (via apt-get).
Stefan
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686-bigmem
Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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On Tuesday 06 March 2007 19:31, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I recently installed Debian from a netinst CD onto a laptop. The
> installation overall went fairly smoothly, except that I was not
> initially able to access the network: the ethernet card was correctly
> recognized and configured, but my network connection requires an
> authentication step via a web browser, and netinst does not include
> any. So I've had to do a minimal install from netinst, then use an USB
> flash drive to copy lynx (and a couple auxiliary libraries), then
> authenticate, then finally do the rest of the install "manually" (via
> apt-get).
It's very unlikely that we'll support that anytime soon. I also question
if it is advisable to install a system over such a public network.
Looks like you found the correct solution to finish the installation.
Closing this report as I don't see anything that we can fix.
Cheers,
FJP
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