ubquity-only lacks the ability to set an HTTP network proxy

[Erick Brunzell]

This is probably not a big deal but I'm trying to be thorough since we're dropping the alternate images.

How important is it that those behind a proxy can no longer set it during installation?

I've not had to deal with that in nearly a decade ;^)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: ubiquity 2.11.28
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-13.14-generic 3.5.3
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-13-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.321
Date: Tue Sep 4 12:42:27 2012
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha i386 (20120903.4)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Login into live session & set the proxy settings in system settings.

[Erick Brunzell (lbsolost)]

How will someone know they need to do that while in a live session?

[Erick Brunzell (lbsolost)]

Marked invalid. It took a bit more testing to verify, but Dmitrijs is correct.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Ok. So you can set the proxy settings during the "Try Ubuntu" session. But were you able to do this in the ubiquity-only mode? "Install Now"? That mode maybe the only option available on low-spec machines (e.g. ARM panda boards).

[Erick Brunzell (lbsolost)]

Dmitrijs,

I hadn't thought about that, and I've personally never used anything but the amd64 and i386 images so I can't be sure about arm*, powerpc, or *64+mac, but my thought is that the installation would still complete as a "Broken Internet" install:

http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/testcases/1313/info

Then I'd think the proxy could be set post-install, and updates could be applied at that time. Is that a reasonable assumption?

Another potential option for corner issues would be using either an Lubuntu or Xubuntu alternate image to perform a CLI install, or even the mini.iso.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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