On Wednesday 09 April 2008, Colin Watson wrote:
> Might be possible, but it seems to violate ubiquity's general idea of
> having a small and simple UI. Does System -> Administration -> Software
> Sources not do the job?
>
> ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Confirmed

Thanks for doing all this great work !!! Can't be said enough.

However, the point is, *during* install (when System -> Administration -> 
Software is not available yet !), it is checking the security repository 
and probably some more. This in effect means that if I install a 7.10 cd 
in 8.02, it is downloading quite some stuff during install. But, for 
people with slow lines, who have local repo, this is a waste of time, 
especially if you want to set up many machines.

So, what I do, is I install from a cd, with network unplugged. Only after 
the full install and reboot, I plug in the network. Then I change sources 
and do agu (apt-get upgrade && apt-get update)

It would be good, that, similar to entering a http proxy, that an 
alternative repo could be given. It's a wish :-)

Cheers,
ace

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possibility to specify alternative repositories during install
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