On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Stuart <stuart@durge.org> wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Severity: normal > Tags: d-i > > Dear Maintainer, > > Installing 9.3.0 via Net Install CD. > At the network detection stage, it found two network interfaces. > I selected one interface, and it allocated an address via DHCP. > My machine is intended to have a static IP, but I couldn't see an > option to enter an IP once DHCP had succeeded. > > It would be useful to be able to choose not to use DHCP, or to > override the DHCP settings. We do handle your use case, but it's probably not very obvious that we do. The way you do it is (IIRC) that you select the <BACK> button after DHCP has succeeded, at which point you should be given the option to configure the network, and when you select that you should be presented with more options. Alternatively, if you're quick you can select <Cancel> while the DHCP attempt is occurring. Another option that generally works is to simply do the install, using the DHCP allocated IP address, and then reconfigure the system to your requirements after it is up and running. The reason we don't offer the prompt you were hoping for by default is that most people on networks with working DHCP want to use it, and quite often are not familiar enough with the technical terms to be able to answer the question we'd have to ask. You can also get the prompt you want by selecting an "Expert" install, but then you'll also get prompted with all the other questions on other subjects that we have decided are not important enough to bother normal users with. HTH If that addresses your concerns, please close the bug. If there is some place where you think placing the documentation about the Back/Cancel bits would have been seen by you, and hence would have allowed you to work out how to do it yourself, please make a suggestion. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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