[Mageia-discuss] How to solve this problem?

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op donderdag 20 oktober 2011 05:17:29 schreef Liam R E Quin:
> On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 22:29 +0200, Renaud MICHEL wrote:
> [...]
> 
> > The net-install ISO has a shell (Alt-F2) with busybox which provides a
> > simple implementation of netcat which you can use to send the appropriate
> > request to the captive portal.
> 
> I think that's not really a solution - after all, the user with limited
> net access probably won't be able to look up how to use netcat to do
> this, unless the documentation included instructions.
> 
> A long term solution might be to try and get an operational Web browser
> sooner.  Maybe then using HTML5 for the user interface for the
> installer?
> 
> Liam

i don't think this is a possibility, remember, you're only having stage1 here, 
just a very limited busybox, not even a full linux environment, let alone X or 
any gui or browser...