Package: installation-guide Severity: minor Tags: d-i patch thanks (resending as a bug, my post to -boot didn't elicit any replies)
For some years the disable_autoconfig preseed has been shown in the appendix on preseeding. However setting that just sets use_autoconfig appropriately. Yet use_autoconfig is not even mentioned in the appendix, ever. There might be something I'm missing here, such as disable_autoconfig is the only thing that works if you pass it on the boot command line. I might also be misinterpreting 'manual configuration' as meaning 'set up an "iface ethX inet static" stanza in /etc/network/interfaces'. If not, is it time to start deprecating use of disable_auotconfig? I realise it was needed in the past but the code has been fixed. --- preseed.xml (revision 70296) +++ preseed.xml (working copy) @@ -882,6 +882,10 @@ # If you prefer to configure the network manually, uncomment this line and # the static network configuration below. +#d-i netcfg/use_autoconfig boolean false + +# The following also forces manual configuration, but is deprecated +# for end user preseed files. It will set use_autoconfig to false. #d-i netcfg/disable_autoconfig boolean true Cheers Vince --