Quoting Paul Telford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Joey Hess wrote: > > > FWIW, this is all due to netcfg calculating default values for these > > things based on the ip address and other info. It's tricky to do that and > > allow for preseeding too; > > So the comments in the example preseed file[1] which say "If you prefer to > configure the network manually, here's how" are essentially meaningless? > Why is there even an option if it is going to be ignored?
Be cause bugs exist..:-) The preseed code is fairly new (late July) and though it was intensively tested, it has been tested by only a few people...none of them using fixed address settings in their test environments. This is certainly too bad, but this is a common problem in the installer development, unfortunately... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
