Bug#596572: debian-installer: Manual network configuration doesn't allow IPv6 addresses
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i ipv6
In the graphical installer (I haven't tried the non-graphical version), when
configuring the network manually, the installer first asks the IP address. The
instructions say "the IP address is unique to your computer and consists of
four numbers separated by periods". That sounds like IPv6 addresses aren't
supported, but I tried entering an IPv6 address anyway.
The result was an error: "Malformed IP address - The IP address you provided
is malformed. It should be in the form x.x.x.x where each 'x' is no larger
than 255. Please try again."
This obviously isn't very nice if the machine happens to be in an IPv6-only
environment.
I'm installing from an USB stick using d-i's daily build. boot.img.gz is from
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/boot.img.gz (last
modified: 12-Sep-2010 16:04) and the CD image is from
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
(last modified: 12-Sep-2010 17:40).
--
Tanu Kaskinen
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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