[Mageia-discuss] How to solve this problem?

[Thomas Backlund]

bascule skrev 21.10.2011 03:54:
> On Thursday 20 October 2011 20:14:42 Maarten Vanraes wrote:
>>   A long term solution might be to try and get an operational Web browser
>>
>>> sooner.  Maybe then using HTML5 for the user interface for the
>>> installer?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Liam
>>
>> i don't think this is a possibility, remember, you're only having stage1
>> here,  just a very limited busybox, not even a full linux environment, let
>> alone X or any gui or browser...
>
> been catching the odd post in this thread, have i missed the suggestion to
> just boot off some preprepared mini live distro with a working browser,
> register and then reboot? i may be wrong but i thought once the mac of the
> device's nic was registered with the wifi network as authorised, it should be
> possible to reboot without having to re-authorise?
>

Unfortunately many (most ?) of them rely on an open/active web-browser
session to work, wich you loose when you reboot.

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Thomas