Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)
On Friday 24 March 2017 18:25:30 Joe wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:18:31 +0000
>
> Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 24 March 2017 12:06:58 Joe wrote:
> > > I've mentioned recently that I once did a non-expert netinstall, in
> > > the days when I used static addresses and no DHCP, and was miffed
> > > to find I had no network interfaces at the end of the process.
> >
> > Until fairly recently I have always had static IPs and chosen to use
> > static IPs. I have always been able to tell the installer so, and
> > have ended up with a properly configured network and a well-written
> > network interfaces file.
>
> a) Is this with a not-expert installation?
I used to chose "expert" long enough to chose a non-default DE, when that was
how one had to do it, but it then went back to the "automatic" installation
unless one went backwards at any stage. (One chose expert install, chose a
DE, clicked "install", the installer took over.) Perhaps choosing a
different DE affected how the installer ran. I could never see why not
wanting Gnome counted as expert and always thought that a lot of non-experts
who didn't want Gnome, must have got landed with it, for fear of asking for
an expert install, even briefly.
> and
> b) Even though you did not use it, was a DHCP server running in the
> network?
Yes.
> I've no idea if it is true today, but when this incident happened, the
> combination of non-expert and no DHCP server detected resulted in no
> network drivers being loaded, even though the network had been used
> during installation.
>
> When I reported it as a bug I was told it was not, it was a feature.
> Presumably only experts understand network configuration. I've always
> used expert mode before and since, but on that occasion it was some kind
> of temporary installation and I thought that non-expert ought to take
> care of it.
I am sure that something similar came up recently with the Live CD. I am
obviously lucky that it didn't happen! Maybe it was to do with which
driver(s) were needed.
Lisi
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