Re: [Cooker] install does not chose dhcp as default.
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 01:40:32PM +0100, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Keld Jørn Simonsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 8.2 gold: when installing a lan it does not chose dhcp as the default. I think that would be beneficial, it was done previously in the betas and that is what MS windows also do. I don't think it changed between beta's and final. Then the question is the default, which is arguable... You just need to check a checkbox and that's it, I don't think it's so hard. True, it is not so hard. For me it is just a wish, and I know newbies would be happy that it would be so. I am just trying to make MDK the most newbie and user friendly distro available:-) Keld
Re: [Cooker] install does not chose dhcp as default.
Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote on Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 02:43:12PM +0100 : 8.2 gold: when installing a lan it does not chose dhcp as the default. I think that would be beneficial, it was done Then the question is the default, which is arguable... You just need to check a checkbox and that's it, I don't think it's so hard. True, it is not so hard. For me it is just a wish, and I know newbies would be happy that it would be so. I am just trying to make MDK the most newbie and user friendly distro available:-) In my experience, setting dhcp as default causes more complaints about my computer takes forever to boot up. I like it set at static personally. Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn msg61092/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Cooker] install does not chose dhcp as default.
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 12:00, Todd Lyons wrote: Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote on Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 02:43:12PM +0100 : 8.2 gold: when installing a lan it does not chose dhcp as the default. I think that would be beneficial, it was done Then the question is the default, which is arguable... You just need to check a checkbox and that's it, I don't think it's so hard. True, it is not so hard. For me it is just a wish, and I know newbies would be happy that it would be so. I am just trying to make MDK the most newbie and user friendly distro available:-) In my experience, setting dhcp as default causes more complaints about my computer takes forever to boot up. I like it set at static personally. Blue skies... Todd I agree. I thought it was very intuitive that DHCP is not added as a default package but only when the network is being set up -- it is then installed as one of the needed packages. -- /curtis Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel Version 2.4.18-2mdk Uptime 4 days 10 hours 14 minutes
