No ethernet autoconfiguration during installation

[Jim McQuillan]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Ricardo [ISO-8859-1] Pérez López wrote:

> I'm trying to install Edubuntu Preview 5.10.
>
> I know Ubuntu try to autoconfigure ethernet connection using DHCP during
> installation. But Edubuntu doesn't try to find out a DHCP server to
> autoconfigure. Instead, it ask me to enter the IP address manually.
>
> Is it intentional?

I'm not sure what the intended behaviour is for the ethernet interface.

But my opinion (if anyone cares) is that the Edubuntu box is a server.

As a server, other machines are going to be connecting to it for various
things.

And because of that, the Edubuntu machine should NOT have a dynamically
assigned address.  It should be statically configured, so that it never
changes.

Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org