Hi Ray, > If install is unable to create an Internet connection, why does it > try to use one? The machine was physically connected to the router > at the time.
Because the installer does not "think" enough. I guess it would not even exclude attempts to connect if your system had no network card. But then, the attempt would probably fail instead of waiting forever. I think especially DOS computers should not be assumed to be online during install anyway - you can add "download further nonfree drivers" as an option, but it should not be active by default, not even if you select "install everything". Compare to Ubuntu: Nonfree stuff is not on there by default either, even though many users do probably want to use the closed source ATI or nVidia graphics drivers :-). > install seems to be subdivided by functional area, and that is good. Yes, a handfull areas. Might be subdivided a bit more but is quite okay as it is now... > is there any way to skip an entire page without unchecking each > individual item? There should be an option "uncheck all", right. But the only thing that I know for now is that you have install options such as "base" or "all" defined in terms of "which pages are installed", plus in addition each page has a default set of selected choices. So what you / we can do is to make a third set (beyond BASE and FULL) which excludes a page of "manual add-ons", possibly with a setting "show the page but with all choices unchecked". It would be nice if you or an installer expert as Bernd or Blair could browse through the installer config files to find out how this can be best implemented. > description of the page as a whole and a skip-page choice would be good. As said, a button "uncheck all" would work just as well :-) Or of course some manual way to select which pages to use, maybe this already exists in some yet unused config option? Did you try all menu items which sound like "custom install"? Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
