Re: Notes on improving the installer

Hi,

a niche use case I ran into: if you need to use a proxy to access
the internet, you need to export the proxy in a shell and start
bsdinstall by hand.[1] It would be nice if this could be done inside
the installer.

Since this happened some time ago, I might be misremembering this, but
I think that you notice only relatively late in the process if your
internet connection isn't working. It might be nice to have a "test
whether I can download the necessary stuff" button as early as
possible.

Best,
Daniel

[1]: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions/2024-May/005310.html