Bug#448871: Should give us the option of syncing time

[Kumar Appaiah <akumar@ee.iitm.ac.in>]

Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal

Dear Debian Installer team,

First of all, I reside in a place where all access to internet is
through HTTP proxy, but we have a Debian mirror which is accessible
from inside without proxy.

I just tried one of the daily build netboot installer, and the only
problem I faced is that it just waited at the ntp syncing stage. I
don't know whether it times out, but I just went to a console and
killed the process. But I'd request you to give users the option of
using their system time as well, since the current system is never
going to work in our case.

This is important enough, I felt, to possess a severity `normal', but
feel free to downgrade it if necessary.

Thanks!

Kuma

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash