Rick_Thomas wrote: > That's your decision to make, and I respect it, but keep in mind that at > least on OldWorld PowerPC Macs, if you boot from floppies, there is no > way to choose "expert" mode. You get the default mode whether you like > it or not. So you don't have any escape hatch to crawl out of when it > wants to do DHCP and you would rather not.
Which is a separate issue from the decision to only display the static networking prompt in expert mode. I'm sure there are lots of good ways to deal with the oldworld mac's problem with expert mode. Note that if you hit the go back button at the hostname question, you'll get to the main menu, and hitting enter will let you choose how to configure it. -- see shy jo
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