Sebastian Haase wrote: > It seems like it found my hardware fine: the ethernet card > works and DHCP gets automatically configured. > BUT: I don't want DHCP - I am missing the question where I > can specify my static IP. > Also I always ended up with hostname being 'localhost'. You need to boot in expert mode, with DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low added to the boot line at the boot prompt, then you'll be able to tell it to skip dhcp and do a manual entry. I think that not noticing that dhcp didn't provide a hostname, and not prompting manually for one is a bug in our netcfg program. > Often after reboot I can't read the CDROM drive anymore - > I can fix that with modconf by deinstalling the scsi-ide > module. Please send details about what model of CD drive you have. I have also seen this with my new test laptop (kindly provided courtesy of Linux Certified, Inc, plug plug), but more data points would be good. > Is there a command to set the network configuration > afterwards ? And change the hostname ? Not currently, there is a bug on base-config asking for this. You'll have to grep and sed in /etc. -- see shy jo
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