Re: Proposal: Ask if user wants to set up network
Am Don, den 08.01.2004 schrieb Joel Konkle-Parker um 19:20:
> I propose (if this isn't being worked on already) that d-i ask the user
> if he/she wants to set up his/her network connections during
> installation instead of assuming so. As can be seen in bug #226495
> <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=226495>, problems
> ensue when this connection can't be established because of driver issues
> and such. The Installer could check to see if a base system image is
> available on the CD-ROM (or whatever installation medium is being used),
> then prompt the user: "Do you want to set up your network connection now?".
>
> This would at least make installation work properly for people in my
> case (see above bug).
This would be against the design of debian-installer. Network
configuration is required to get a working system with these images (you
don't have a reasonably usable system with only the base packages).
Therefore I would not let the user to skip this step.
For your case I suggest to go to the console and to load the necessary
drivers from a floppy disk or cdrom. Network configuration should work
after that.
On a full CD set network configuration would ideally not be done in
debian-installer, but optionally in base-config.
Gaudenz
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