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 <nicholas00ponti...@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. >
