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I could have sworn this wasn't the case but if bugs on the Debian tracker
are updated, then maybe you never could install without a network
connection. Debian-installer cannot be reported with ubuntu-bug, it
appears, because its bugs are not tracked there but with the Debian
tracker. There is a bug there describing this problem from 2007, though:
http://bugs.debian.org/429926

wxl
On Apr 16, 2013 10:55 PM, "∅" <carsrcoffins23@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> a week or so ago i did an alternate install with no network. it carried on
> like normal and i had no problems.
>
> today, using 20130416, selecting the option to not configure the network
> at this time leads to the installer asking to select a mirror. if a mirror
> is selected, it then attempts to connect to it, which fails. game over.
>
> did something change? i can't imagine so because i can install desktop
> without a network.
>
> it sure would be ideal to not have it be this way. not everyone has access
> to ethernet and those that don't can't always access wifi readily (read:
> b43). busybox (alternate's shell) doesn't have the capacity a standard
> shell would and so it's difficult to get around this latter issue, for
> example.
>
> any thoughts?
>
> wxl
>