Bug#243543: /etc/network/interfaces now setup properly

[Christopher Martin <christopher.martin@utoronto.ca>]

On May 23, 2004 13:19, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 10:55:13AM -0400, Christopher Martin wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, what would happen if no network interfaces were
> > detected? (Say, your network card is too new, or you plan to install
> > it later). Would netcfg still configure /etc/network/interfaces,
> > /etc/hosts, etc. or would it simply do nothing?
>
> I think it will just crap out and moan that it has no interfaces. :(
>
> Basically, we need some sort of heuristic to crap out conditionally, by
> determining whether the boot media contains enough pkgs to complete the
> install, or halt the installation right there because it would be
> impossible.

I suppose that any medium with the base system can be considered 
"installable". But for the installer to fail because no network 
interfaces are detected is pretty serious, since as time passes many new 
systems will ship with NICs that the Sarge kernel doesn't support. Is 
there anyone out there who currently has a system, without any network 
connectivity, who could help test this? I'd rather not yank out my NIC 
and wireless card if I didn't have to...

> I've fixed your bug where the hosts file is not generated when omitting
> network configuration, however.

Ah, great. I'll double-check this the next time I do an install.

Thanks,
Christopher Martin