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

["Joshua Kwan" <joshk@triplehelix.org>]

Christopher Martin said:
> 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...

But the businesscard images don't have the base system on them. And then
you have other architectures where you can only boot from floppies. So
it's a sticky kind of situation. After all, on those images where the base
system isn't available, you do need the network to complete installation.

What does the rest of the team say about this?

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Joshua Kwan