I have just tried to install a Debian Edu system from the netinst CD
image for the first time (in ages) on a fully up-and-running Debian
Edu network.

One part of my favourite setup is blocking all outgoing traffic to the
internet for Debian Edu clients and have all internet connections
mediated by squid on TJENER (or some other host serving
webcache.intern.3128).

So, my simple expectation was, that a Debian Edu installation from CD
image would automatically use the proxy server configured via WPAD.
This obviously is not in the case:

```
[...]
Mar 21 15:16:16 debian-edu-profile: info: do we want popcon?
Mar 21 15:16:17 debian-edu-profile: info: popconf: no!
Mar 21 15:16:17 lib/debian-edu-common: info: no proxy used.
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Mar 21 15:16:17 debian-edu-profile: Setting mirror/distribution to bullseye
[...]
```

How is this designed to work? Should the CD netinst D-I use TJENER's
squid proxy if available (e.g. webcache.intern) or simply try direct
internet access?

What is our wanted behaviour here?

Mike

Hi again,

I forgot to mention... on a firewalled network (denying direct
outgoing connections), this let's the installer freeze for a while and
then fail...

Mike

[ Mike Gabriel, 2022-03-21 ]
"You can use an existing HTTP proxy service on the network to speed up
the installation of the main server profile from CD. Add e.g.
mirror/http/proxy=http://10.0.2.2:3128 as an additional boot parameter."

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Bullseye/Installation#Installation_types_and_options

Similar instruction since the Etch release...

Wolfgang

control: severity -1 wishlist
thanks

thus downgrading severity of this bug.