Bug#504753: debian-installer: autodetect correct network card [PATCH]
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 09:57:26 +0100 (+0100), Guido Günther wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 08:49:49PM +0000, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> > db_set netcfg/choose_interface $interface
> > # must mark question as seen otherwise you are reprompted
> > db_fset netcfg/choose_interface seen true
> Isn't prompting o.k. here? Preselecting the correnct interface and
> giving a message that this was autodetected might be better, because
> folks might want to choose a different interface.
Good point. In my case this was part of an automated install so
prompting would be bad. However I suppose the ideal would be to use
this to try and autodetect the right interface and also provide a way
to automatically accept it _if_ required.
Adrian
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