Re: Proposal: Ask if user wants to set up network

[Joel Konkle-Parker <jjk3@msstate.edu>]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:20:12PM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>
> Ok, and if you're installing from a *net*inst CD (which is what the
> current dailies are), what do you expect the system to do when it needs
> to install more packages?
>
> If you really only want the base system to be installed and nothing
> else, you should be able to boot the CD in 'expert' mode, and avoid the
> redundant prompting.   "base only with no access to full package
> archives" sounds like an expert configuration to me, do you disagree?


What I've always done in the past is get a base system installed, 
install the .deb from LinuxAnt, copy the necessary files from 
/mnt/windows, set up WEP, ifup eth0, then do my tasksel/dselect/apt-get 
from there.

Is this possible from within d-i's mini-shell?


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