Installing without Internet access causes repositories are not properly configured

[Ricardo Pérez López]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

When you install Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on a machine without Internet access, repositories are not properly configured.

Expected behavior:

Internet repositories are off, CD-ROM repository is on.

Actual behavior:

Internet repositories are on, CD-ROM repository is off.

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

"Software sources" status after installing Ubuntu on a computer without Internet access. The Internet repositories are enabled, and the CD-ROM is disabled. This is incorrect, because the user can't install any package using this configuration, and he/she must setup the software sources manually after the Ubuntu installation.

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

EXPECTED "software sources" status after installing Ubuntu on a computer without Internet access. The Internet repositories are disabled, and the CD-ROM is enabled. IMHO, this is the correct way, because the user can install packages using the CD-ROM, without need to setup the software sources manually.

[Iuga Marian Silviu (iugamarian)]

Yeah what about ISP's that stop some people internet connection for a few days - installation without
internet should be the default in Ubuntu.

And this is very bad - instead of loading packages from the available cd, the mirroring sites
are overloaded. Mirror sites should be stopped by default.

And what if a complete internet stall because of some disaster or a bad man that coded
a multios multiplatform virus for stalling it comes ? Without an internet connection ubuntu
must not be useless or faulty.
The questions like 'need to download support for that' should be more rare.

By the way - Star Trek Voyager Intrepid Class did not have an internet connection.
That can happen nowadays with a computer... or ship... or starship.

[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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