On Mon 17 Sep 2012 at 11:57:14 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > > Should one not be able to switch out of the installation process and > > into a browser (2 are already included) to search out answers? > > One should, but as d-i on the live CD is currently implemented, one > cannot. d-i runs as a fullscreen window, and I couldn't see any > easily-discoverable way to switch out of it to try other programs > the one time I briefly tried using d-i from a live CD (pretty good > newbie facimile ;). That is a legitimate bug, I think.
Does CTRL-ALT-F1 count? In KDE, right click on the installer icon. Then Properties/Application/Advanced Options/Run in terminal Launch d-i and use ALT-TAB. From the terminal's file menu you can get a shell to run a browser. Something similar can be done with Xfce. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120917171301.GF20063@desktop
