Bug#161999: boot-floppies: 3.0r0 install can end with no /etc/host{s,name}
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 11:32:50AM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: Debian 3.0r0
> Severity: serious
>
> When installing woody from CD on a laptop yesterday, the installation
> ended without an /etc/hosts nor an /etc/hostname. Hm, maybe there are
> others, but I did not noticed yet.
>
> Not sure it is the source of the problem, but I had asked for a DHCP
> setup, while not connected to a network (something that I thought
> would be reasonable to ask, but for some reason it appeared that was
> not allowed), and after DHCP failure I had to skip the "network
> config" step.
>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: 3.0
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux vitel 2.4.19-station #1 Tue Aug 6 11:36:58 CEST 2002 i686
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=
Yes, if you skipped network configuration then it is still unconfigured.
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