[Mageia-discuss] How to solve this problem?

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op woensdag 19 oktober 2011 22:48:06 schreef Kristoffer Grundström:
> 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?

it doesn't, but no suitable solution helps this for newbies anyway... the only 
such solution would mean that the installer would need to be as complex as a 
livecd... which means the sizes would grow too high and this would be totally 
unusable and unmaintainable...