** Description changed: The former version of ubuntu-installer (14.04) included an initrd.gz with the biosdevname binary and 71-biosdevname.rules for udev. Since 16.04, there is no more biosdevname traces in the ubuntu-installer. - That induce a different name for network card (e.g eno1 instead of em1) during installing phase. + That induces a different name for network card (e.g eno1 instead of em1) during installing phase. - It is a backward compatibility issue for preseed and post-installation + It's a backward compatibility issue for preseed and post-installation scripts as they become deprecated (even with the same hardware). - Futhermore, if you installed biosdevname on the fresh install, your + Futhermore, if you install biosdevname on the fresh install, your network card will fall back to the old 14.04 (em1) scheme... That's - really disruptive when one want to automatize and deploy at scale. + really disruptive when one wants to automatize and deploy at scale.
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