Bug#39439: marked as done (boot-floppies: network configuration not available as its own module)
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From: Marc.Haber@gmx.de
Subject: boot-floppies: network configuration not available as its own module
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Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A
Severity: wishlist
During system installation, the user is asked to enter some system data
like host name, IP address, netmask. This information is then used to
directly write some files like /etc/hosts, /etc/networks and /etc/init.d
networks (netconfig.c).
Thus, it is not possible to configure the network at a later time with
the support of an automatic mechanism because dinstall is only available
during the installation.
I feel that it would be a good idea to move this part of the configuration
out of dinstall into a separate program that can be called after system
installation.
Greetings
Marc
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Debian Release: 2.1
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Subject: boot-floppies: network configuration not available as its own module
From: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>
Date: 23 Apr 2000 22:49:32 -0400
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> During system installation, the user is asked to enter some system data
> like host name, IP address, netmask. This information is then used to
> directly write some files like /etc/hosts, /etc/networks and /etc/init.d
> networks (netconfig.c).
> Thus, it is not possible to configure the network at a later time with
> the support of an automatic mechanism because dinstall is only available
> during the installation.
Now, you can use DHCP to configure automatically. Moreover, it sets
configuration in /etc/network/interfaces. If there is no debian tool
to configure /etc/network/interfaces, then that is not a bug against
boot-floppies.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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