Bug#826189: debian-installer: unable to set up advanced network connections from installer
Ok, that makes sense. What I was trying to do was just install a Debian system with the particular stuff I wanted, and I wanted to connect to the network before installation so I could use a minimal iso and download stuff during installation. What I actually did was just use a bigger iso image with a lot of stuff, including network manager, included, which worked fine (and I connected after installing). So yeah, I guess in terms of convenience what I'm asking for wouldn't add much, and although I don't understand much of the technical stuff you said, I interpret your message as saying the cost of implementing it in the installer would be, comparatively, very high, for small benefit, and I can see that now.
Thanks for the reply.
On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 14:05 +0200, Neil Williams wrote:
severity 826189 wishlist
tag 826189 + moreinfo
thanks
On Fri, 03 Jun 2016 01:06:36 -0400 nick <nicholas00pontillo@gmail.com>
wrote:
Package: debian-installer
Version: 20160516+b1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I cannot find a way to do anything other than enter WEP/WPA2
passwords and SSIDs. Specifically I would like to be able to connect
to networks with PEAP authentication from the installer, but this is
not currently possible as far as I can tell. I would like for us to
basically be able to do anything from the installer that we can do
from the network-manager application.
It is unlikely that the installer will ever have comparable levels of
support to the final running system, if only due to the dependencies of
an installed application and the lack of available support during the
operation of the installer. It's a corner case that is unlikely to meet
the needs of more than a handful of users.
Are you trying to use this authentication to operate the installer or
simply to configure in the installed image automatically?
If you simply need to configure the system after install (e.g. you
could use a DVD image to provide the packages to install and setup the
network mirror later) then it should be easy to create a script/package
which does this step once the system is fully/mostly installed.
One other way to do this would be to do a secondary install - deploy
the system with a ramdisk or NFS or similar which would be able to make
the network connection and then do a manual install onto the media,
e.g. using debootstrap.
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