retitle 655304 Netinst CD silently continue to install broken system when there is no Internet connection thanks
[Christian Maxen] > If the network is left unconfigured during > mainserver-only-installation (or network is manual configured but no > cable is connected), there is no message that informs anything .. and > with the first boot, the installation/admin runs into the 'error' > Bug#655304 described. Right. I was able to reproduce this using the netinst CD, answering 'norwegian', 'norway', 'norway - latin1', then aborting the DHCP configuration and setting some bogus manual IP configuration. I selected Main-Server only as the profile. The installer continues without any errors and one end up with a broken Main-Server. Just to be clear and for future reference. The netinst installation _require_ Internet connection to work properly. If you lack Internet connection, you have to use the DVD to install. > But, the work in there seams to be, to know where/how to initiate/put > a message, to inform about, and handle a non-existing internet > connection. The natural place is in the debian-edu-profile script in the debian-edu-profile-udeb package, where it already try to use the Internet and know if it is working. I'm not sure if this is a bug we want to fix for Squeeze, but we should try to address it for Wheezy. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
