Why is adding a new Ubuntu PC to an existing LAN such a pain?

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 1/21/07, Bob Adams <bob55 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> In message <1169336453.15221.102.camel at development>, John R Cichy
> <john at greengator.com> writes
> >On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 23:26 +0000, Bob Adams wrote:
> >
> >> >
> >> >How are you getting your IP address initially? Do you have a DHCP server
> >> >running?
> >> >
> >> No, no DHCP server present so I'm using (or trying to) static addresses.
> >> This is quite likely the reason for the hangs (Ubuntu assumes a server
> >> will be present which is not a really good idea.)
> >>
> >During the install you are given the choice to use static or DHCP, you
> >should be putting your static in at this time.
> >
> Apart from being asked my name and what language my keyboard used, I
> don't recall many other questions and certainly nothing about networking
> during the install. You're not getting confused with Fedora are you? :-)

I'm not sure about the Ubuntu's Desktop install but for Alternate
install, shall the installer script be unable to get a DHCP lease it
will allow you to manually configure an IPv4 address for your network
interfaces.