No ethernet autoconfiguration during installation

[Ricardo Pérez López]

El mar, 13-09-2005 a las 10:29 -0400, Jim McQuillan escribió:
> 
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Ricardo [ISO-8859-1] Prez Lpez 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.

I guess Edubuntu is both a client and 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.

Curiously, during installation I can skip the networking configuration,
go to another virtual console, and type "dhclient eth0", which does the
trick. This is the reason to ask about the no-dhcp configuration :/

> Jim McQuillan
> jam at Ltsp.org