Package: installation-report Severity: important
I'm trying to use the Debian Installer etch beta 2 to install systems within a fairly tightly firewalled network. Although the installer prompts to ask what repository it should use for the main packages it then tries to use a hard-coded source (presumably security.debian.org) to check for security updates, without first seeking permission to do this or guidance on how to do it. In our network, this fails (slowly) because all direct outgoing http requests are dropped at the firewall. After a significant delay a message appears explaining what has happened and offering the option to continue (it advises that the problem should be investigated and corrected later). If one then selects the "Continue" button, nothing further happens. The installation process does not move on and there's no way to get back to the menu. Apart from fixing this "getting stuck" problem, can I suggest the following enhancements to the installer: 1) Ask before attempting to get security updates. (Obviously default to yes). 2) Ask where to get them from. I have a local copy of them but there seems to be no way to tell the installer to use this local copy. 3) Ask for proxy information. This can (and in our case does) differ from the proxy information needed to access the main package repository. Obviously again - default to the same proxy information as previously entered. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.2-bluebox3 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]