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From: Jan <tona_kosmicznego_smiecia@interia.pl>
Subject: bug#36753: The GUI installer throws an error
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 02:02:45 +0200
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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> That you were able to continue without networking looks like a bug.
> However, I just tried, and when networking is unavailable, I get the
> =E2=80=9CConnection error=E2=80=9D box that only allows me to go back to =
the =E2=80=9CChecking
> connectivity=E2=80=9D dialog; there=E2=80=99s no way to skip that AFAICS.

Okay, I now know what *probably* have happened. My proprietary
motherboard - MSI PC Mate B350 tricked me - after updating the firmware
and enabling the "UEFI mode" instead of "UEFI or legacy BIOS" I got a
higher resolution and network started to work normally. Before enabling
it, the GUI installer couldn't find network connection itself, so I had
to manually configure network connection by using ifconfig and dhclient,
then I just followed the GUI installer, and it somehow let me continue
with or without networking.=20
Tried switching back to BIOS mode, but I can't reproduce the bug
anymore. None of this happens on my librebooted machine, tried hard to
break the installation :). Guess that's it, thanks for your time. I'm
probably going to sell this nonfree machine anyway.

Jan