[Bug 57681] Re: no support for non-DHCP network configuration

[Aldo Maggi]

Now or in 2006?  Should i ask the debian-installer  developers to put an
end to this silly debate?  Anyway i made  out the bug report because all
the machines we have at home have an IP 192.168.1.xxx and while
installing AT THOSE TIMES the installer would look for a DHCP server and
did not allow me  to manually provide the addressess.  This circumstance
was ascertained by Colin Watson (see please the second msg in the
thread).  Finally i do not like  to disturb maintainers and developers
whom i thank for their great work therefore before opening a bug report
i double check several times, so even if  you were right (and i do not
think so) it means that by no means to install ubuntu was
straightforward with my network configuration , take into account that
in 2006 i was not a newbie and had installed ubuntu early since warthy
and debian starting from Hamm in 1999

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Title:
  no support for non-DHCP network configuration

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  while installing edgy i noticed in the syslog that dhclient is keeping on trying to spot a dhcp server.
  i do not know if it is important for, maybe, updating some packages, if available, but the problem is that the installer doesn't take account of the fact, as it is in my case, that the router could not have an active dhcp server.
  i think that asking at the very beginning of the installation if the router is providing a dhcp service or not would be a much better choice.

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