I have reverted the excessively generic bug title to the original one, which was much more descriptive. Where possible, bugs should be about single technical changes, not "user-friendly installation" which is so vague as to be unfixable.
I would greatly appreciate it if people stopped fiddling around with the metadata on this bug. Thank you. :-) ** Description changed: - Currently, the installer stalls at 82% with no user-freindly instructions or feedback about the download progress. - This takes a considerable amount of time with slow connections and new users often wonder if the installation has stalled. - - Present dialogue : - - Configuring apt - [ 82% ] - Scanning the mirror.... - - New users dont know what apt or mirror actually means! - - Suggestion: - Explain the process better and allow users to skip the downloads. - - - Configuring update-manager - [ 82% ] - Updating from network... - - - Downloading language packs (N Mb) ... - [ 82% ] - Language packs are essential for better localization of the Ubuntu install. - - Skip this step - - - --------------Old Description------------- - When installing Ubuntu desktop on a computer with a slow Internet connection, the "Configuring Apt" stage of the installer sits at 82% while 'apt-get update' runs in the background. The user cannot see it running and therefore cannot cancel it if they know the update will take a very long time. + When installing Ubuntu desktop on a computer with a slow Internet + connection, the "Configuring Apt" stage of the installer sits at 82% + while 'apt-get update' runs in the background. The user cannot see it + running and therefore cannot cancel it if they know the update will take + a very long time. While having the network update during installation is quite convenient, it can also take a very, very long time for those of us who want to install first and update later. I think there should be an option somewhere in the installation that asks if the user would like to connect to the Internet to get updates/activate repositories. For the record, the update takes about 10 minutes on a DSL line that gets 20 kB/s (~256 kbps?). -- Unable to skip network access during installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/172879 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
