[Bug 1064569] Re: Text-based installer should prompt for HTTP proxy information at beginning of process

[HyperHacker]

Thanks, I had no idea the package name.

** Package changed: ubuntu => debian-installer (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  Text-based installer should prompt for HTTP proxy information at
  beginning of process

Status in “debian-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Just about every time I've installed a *buntu, using the "alternate" ISOs, the same thing happens:
  1) The installer asks for information such as desired username and password, time zone, and keyboard layout.
  2) After filling out a few pages, it appears to start a long-running task, so at this point I assume it has all the information it needs and can complete installation unattended, so I go do something else for a while.
  3) I come back hours later expecting the installation to be done, and instead see it barely started, paused, asking for HTTP proxy information.

  It's a huge waste of time, and poor UI design to wait until partway
  through a long-running process to ask for more information you need to
  finish it, when you know you'll need it every time. It should prompt
  for this information right at the beginning, and probably do a
  connection test, so you can safely leave for a few hours after
  starting the installation and it'll actually be done when you get
  back. Perhaps it could even just try to connect without a proxy and
  see if that works, since I imagine it usually will.

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