I agree with this suggestion. On my computers I can't do an online installation at all. One of them lacks needed proprietary firmware, while the other one is unable to connect, even if the essid is specified manually.
Having the repositories commented out seems a sensible compromise between enabling them on an offline machine and completely deleting them. Perhaps a message during installation after "Do you want to use a network mirror?" along the lines of "Add default repositories to your sources.list?" is in order. An alternate suggestion would be for apt-get to warn users on empty 'sources.list' and point them to 'man sources.list' where examples of working repository urls can be found. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130204155412.410dac7f@pc
