Re: exit bash during installation

[Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net>]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 10:00:32AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2022-03-31 at 09:38, Haines Brown wrote:
> 
> > Early in an installation I wanted to find the machine's local IP 
> > address in order to configure the network manually terminal (Alt-F2).
> > Finding that commands to get the local addresss were not available,
> 
> What commands did you try? I'd be a little surprised if nothing that
> could do this was present in the installation environment, but it might
> not be what you were expecting to use.

I forget which command I tried. Perhaps $ hostname -i

> 
> > I went to exit bash. Although bash recognize the exit command, it did
> > not work.
> 
> "Did not work" is not usually a helpful description. What *did* happen?

nothing

> 
> > How do I get back to the installation routine?
> 
> If you used Alt+F2 to get to the current console, you might need to
> switch back to whichever console you were originally on. The default
> expectation would be that you were probably on the first console, so you
> should be able to get back there using Alt+F1.

Thanks.

This is an older machine, and so automatic configuration did not work
with the hardware. ñI've never been able to insert the needed driver
from a USB key. So turned to manual configuration, but it  required 
that I know the machine's local IP.

I finally opened a bash terminal and configured 
/etc/network/interfaces file manually.


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     Haines Brown 

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