On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:18:31 +0000 Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 24 March 2017 12:06:58 Joe wrote: > > I've mentioned recently that I once did a non-expert netinstall, in > > the days when I used static addresses and no DHCP, and was miffed > > to find I had no network interfaces at the end of the process. > > Until fairly recently I have always had static IPs and chosen to use > static IPs. I have always been able to tell the installer so, and > have ended up with a properly configured network and a well-written > network interfaces file. a) Is this with a not-expert installation? and b) Even though you did not use it, was a DHCP server running in the network? I've no idea if it is true today, but when this incident happened, the combination of non-expert and no DHCP server detected resulted in no network drivers being loaded, even though the network had been used during installation. When I reported it as a bug I was told it was not, it was a feature. Presumably only experts understand network configuration. I've always used expert mode before and since, but on that occasion it was some kind of temporary installation and I thought that non-expert ought to take care of it. -- Joe
