Bug#221046: bootfloppy-image, proxy, without CD
reassign 221046 cdrom-detect
retitle 221046 cdrom-detect doesn't allow install from net w/o having a CD
thanks
* Andreas J Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de> [2003-11-16 12:43]:
> As soon as the installation routines had network access, they started
> downloading lots of data from raff.debian.org. I consider it a bug
> that it didn't give me a chance to configure a different server,
> especially as I do have a slow internet connection but a proxy server
> in the LAN. And I want to repeat the installation within LANs without
> Internet access.
I think this has been fixed in the meantime.
> After that, the installation complained:
>
> Your installation CD could not be mounted. That probably means that
> the CD is not yet inserted. If that's the case, just insert it and
> don't perform the manual configuration; the CD mount will be
> re-tried. If your CD was already in the drive, there was another
> problem: try the manual CD configuration
>
> Perform manual CD configuration? [Yes] [No]
>
>
> If I say "No", I just get the same screen again.
>
> If I say "Yes", I get pulled into a dialog about CDROM modules and
> devices that I'm not interested in. I want the thing to continue
> downloading from the net without using the CD.
Looking at the code, it seems this is still the case. Reassigning to
cdrom-detect.
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Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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