Installation irritation: checking network repository...

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:10:49AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> When installing ubuntu on a computer which do not have direct access
> to an internet ubuntu repository, the installation process hangs on
> for a long time while trying to reach in stead of timeout after say a
> minute or so.
> 
> Is there a way to get around this irritation?

Switching to tty2 and killing apt's http method process (which you'll
need to do a few times, as it tries several repositories) ought to do
it. This bug's being worked on in Breezy.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]