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From: Lisi on 2 Jul 2010 18:20 On Friday 02 July 2010 19:23:50 Joe wrote: > In those days I was using fixed addresses on my couple of network > machines, and so was not running dhcp on the sarge machine. Apparently, > if during the installation, a dhcp server was not found, and you hadn't > picked the expert install, you didn't get offered networking. A feature, > not a bug. > > As it happens, I was experienced enough to get it working, but the > situation might have come as a surprise to a beginner, someone who might > know enough from Windows to configure networking, but not feel confident > enough to try the expert install (or maybe not even knowing it existed). > > These days I do run dhcp, and always use the expert mode after that > experience, so I've no idea whether more recent distributions behave the > same. But they might. No, they don't. If they can't find a DHCP network, you get offered the chance to do a manual network set-up. In fact, last time I installed I was able to set the network up manually by choice, without going via a failed DHCP (I have DHCP enabled on my router for the benefit of laptop users), But I can't remember what I had to do. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007022318.29565.lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com |