On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 02:55:07PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 21 March 2017 14:33:29 Catherine Gramze wrote: > > Refusing to continue an installation that will inevitably be a failure is > > how it should act. > > Rot. It will not "inevitably be a failure". It can be a very good way out > of > some problems.
Agreed. Some people may want to install Debian on a computer that doesn't have a network interface *at all*. They should be able to do so. They *are* able to do so. You know what I would change? I would have the installer put a default set of deb and deb-src lines into sources.list, but commented out, when this happens, instead of leaving sources.list basically unconfigured and requiring the user to research what SHOULD have been put there (and usually getting it wrong).