On Tue 21 Mar 2017 at 10:33:29 (-0400), Catherine Gramze wrote: > Sent from my iPad > > > On Mar 21, 2017, at 6:31 AM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On Tuesday 21 March 2017 02:58:50 Catherine Gramze wrote: > >> The installer allows you to continue the installation without a configured > >> network card, and it shouldn't. > > > > Of course it should *allow* you to do so. And it does warn you. Not allow > > you indeed! > > > No, it should not. Refusing to continue an installation that will inevitably > be a failure is how it should act.
You have a very strange view of why people run linux on computers. Why should it be a failure? You obviously lack experience of using computers in an ingenious manner, thinking outside the box as they say, and seem to want to force your limited view onto other people. > Refusing to continue would not keep anybody from a simple base install if > that is what they want; they can have a compatible network card attached, > even a cheap USB one, and back out of the installation after the reboot. Feel free to suggest improvements to the debian-installer to make its outcomes more useful, but not by proscribing the actions that others want to take. You might have the d-i warn people about their choices, rather in the way that you are warned if you don't configure a swap partition, but it should be possible to ignore such warnings. > Having to have a configured network card is not a burdensome requirement. Who are you to say so? Please keep this person away from the Debian development team. This attitude is the thin end of a wedge. > Even server installations are going to want to continue past the reboot > point, and choose what kind of server the system will be, install the > appropriate packages, and get security updates. You don't have to have a network card to do any of that, or to have a useful system. I ran a system at home for years which recorded programmes off air automatically, and which I used for digitising my vinyl collection. It used USB storage and, before that, ZIP and JAZ drives (I had a scsi period). I also used to read this list and other emails, at home without a network connection, all done with said drives and a python program juggling .procmailrc and versioned inboxes. Cheers, David.
