Bug#243543: /etc/network/interfaces now setup properly
Hello,
The installer now works very well. Since I use pppoeconf, after the
unsuccessful DHCP detect, I selected "no config at this time" and
proceeded with the rest of the install.
Upon booting, /etc/network/interfaces did indeed contain the loopback
interface, so that's fixed.
I also noticed that there was no /etc/resolv.conf. In an earlier beta, you
used "touch" to create this file, even if it was empty, but since then
ppp has been fixed so that the mere existence of this file is not needed.
I guess that's why you don't create it anymore, which is good.
The only other thing I noticed, that has to do with netcfg, is
that /etc/hosts no longer contains the hostname (as in "127.0.0.1
johnyscomputer localhost", but contains merely "127.0.0.1 localhost". Is
this a regression? I remember bugs being filed about this earlier, and
the problem being fixed with beta3 or 4.
On my Sarge machine, /etc/hosts contains the hostname, and a bunch of
lines about IPv6 - these are missing from the fresh install as well.
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?
Thanks,
Christopher Martin
On May 23, 2004 02:14, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> Guys,
>
> Go ahead and try this image:
>
> http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/i386/20040522/
>
> Christian Perrier told me that the libdebian-installer issue has
> finally been resolved.
>
> Hope this works!
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