On 2017-03-21 at 20:52, Catherine Gramze wrote: >> On Mar 21, 2017, at 7:20 PM, David Wright >> <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> On Tue 21 Mar 2017 at 15:44:18 (-0400), Catherine Gramze wrote: >>> >>> The installer allows you to continue the installation without a >>> configured network card, and it shouldn't. >> >> Please explain how this statement doesn't take away the option of >> continuing the installation without a configured network card. > > You are perfectly free to remove that $15 USB NIC after you reach the > installation point you want. And don't even pretend that most people > don't already have a spare NIC of some kind floating around their > living space. Most people certainly don't. _I_ don't, and I'm an IT professional who does occasional programming and packaging work in my spare time, and builds and installs my own computers from scratch. To the best of my awareness, every single network device in this highly technically literate household household (a good dozen active-use computers, including the laptops, but not counting the servers) is motherboard-integrated. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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