[Mageia-discuss] How to solve this problem?

Kristoffer Grundström kristoffer.grundstrom1983 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 19 22:48:06 CEST 2011


Maarten Vanraes skrev 2011-10-19 22:42:
> Op woensdag 19 oktober 2011 22:28:13 schreef Kristoffer Grundström:
>> Maarten Vanraes skrev 2011-10-19 22:25:
>>> Op woensdag 19 oktober 2011 21:55:25 schreef Kristoffer Grundström:
>>>> Oliver Burger skrev 2011-10-19 21:27:
>>>>> Am Mittwoch, 19. Oktober 2011, 21:14:03 schrieb Kristoffer Grundström:
>>>>>> I was asking IF I'm ON the bus&    want to install while waiting to get
>>>>>> home.
>>>>> Just read a book?
>>>>>
>>>>> Oliver
>>>> It still doesn't help me boot the installation when I'm on the bus if I
>>>> have to travel a long time. Please stick to the real issue in the
>>>> installer&   not telling me to do things on the side.
>>>> Every problem has its solution, so what's the Mageia-installer solution
>>>> then if we stick to the net install-iso?
>>> it is true that when installing or whatever, we ask proxy and stuff, so
>>> if we think of wifi (are we asking wifi connection parameters too?),
>>> there's open wifi with some kind of hotspot software, which can be
>>> needed to get activated, before you can actually use it...
>>>
>>> maybe we can use links or lynx from the busybox to activate it?
>> Yes, but the links get randomly generated.
> no, links and lynx are text-based browsers, they would redirect to the link
> when trying to visit some page.
>
> the person having this issue, could interrupt installer and go to a busybox
> and try a text-based browser there to agree or enter username/password so that
> networking would work.
I agree to your idea, but how does that help newbies?


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