Comment 12 for bug 2038987

I've tried a couple of bare-metal installs to an external SSD drive. I had no problems entering the "who are you" details and completing the install.

It seems to me that this is at least partly a qemu/kvm issue. It's possible that the online install just happened to get the apt repos at the right time :) , so I'll reserve judgment on that issue, but offline definitely would seem to be qemu/kvm.

Which is a pity, as I have no spare amd64 devices, and don't like using my main box in case I "try" to install to the wrong disk/partition. :(