severity 540023 wishlist reassign 540023 debian-installer thanks On Wednesday 05 August 2009, Patrick Vervoorn wrote: > Digging deeper, finally the output shown in the output from the > underlying installation scripts (Alt-F4), showed what had happened: the > PGP-keyring was out of date, and the big 'apt-get install > <loads-of-packages' command was waiting for input from the user, to > confirm to continue with an untrusted PGP key.
Unfortunately it is technically rather difficult to catch this situation inside the installer. > It would be wise to fix this, especially if the same can happen with > the current installation (5.x/lenny). At the very least, the installing > user should be made aware he/she is installing a rather out-of-date > system, and whether to reconsider. It would probably also be handy if a > user who knows what they're doing, could push through this install, and > install anyway. That is possible by using the debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated=true boot option as documented in the Installation Guide. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org