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nextstopmars

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[SOLVED]Installation when in browser authentication is required.

I am on my University Wifi which requires us to login into our respective accounts just after connecting to the open wifi.I am thinking of installing Arch over this Wifi network but have no idea how would I authenticate myself during the installation which has no gui browser?Any help will be appreciated.For the snapshots http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions … stallation

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Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED]Installation when in browser authentication is required.

how would I authenticate myself during the installation which has no browser?

It certainly has a browser or two.  I don't know whether the current isos have elinks, lynx, or w3m, but it should definitely have at least one of them.  But you can also install any one of these in the live envrionment.

mod note: moved to newbie corner.

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nextstopmars

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Re: [SOLVED]Installation when in browser authentication is required.

I have tried all three links,lynx and w3m from ubuntu terminal they just return a blank screen with a redirect text in upper right corner and no login screen.

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED]Installation when in browser authentication is required.

Check what url a gui browser redirects to, then just go directly to that url in the textmode browser.

Worst case - provided you are not on a very old low-ram machine, you could install xorg and a light gui browser in the live environment.  But I'd keep this as an absolute last resort. (edit: sorry, wasn't thinking when I posted this - if you can't connect, you can't install anything)

Before that, I'd see go off to some cafe or somewhere else with a sane network available (edit: once installed, you should have no issue with this, you just need to get over the initial hurdle to connect and install).

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nextstopmars

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Re: [SOLVED]Installation when in browser authentication is required.

Thanks,going to the link that the gui browser redirects to solves the problem in lynx,links and w3m.As I am a newbie,are these text mode browsers are already available on the live media?

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qyprg

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Re: [SOLVED]Installation when in browser authentication is required.

Thanks,going to the link that the gui browser redirects to solves the problem in lynx,links and w3m.As I am a newbie,are these text mode browsers are already available on the live media?

Yes, the last time I installed Arch from the live ISO, it had the elinks text web browser.

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED]Installation when in browser authentication is required.

Like I said, at least one of them will be.  I don't know which one(s) currently are as which ones are included in the iso may have changed since I last installed.

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nextstopmars

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Re: [SOLVED]Installation when in browser authentication is required.

Thanks all of you for your time.Overwhelmed by the community support to my first query that makes me more eager to switch to the Arch.(Responses were so fast and to the point like we are live on some social media website like fb )

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED]Installation when in browser authentication is required.

Oh dear - please do not compare us to FB

But also, appologies for not actually welcoming you to the forums.  So welcome.

If/when this is working you can click "edit" on your first post in order to prepend the word "[SOLVED]" to the title.

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nextstopmars

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Re: [SOLVED]Installation when in browser authentication is required.

Thanks Trilby,won't compare in future,learning forum rules!!!