On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 01:37:41PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 01:14:27PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > > Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Well, I guess your situation is not really the general setup, so making > > > it easier for you would mean making it harder for almost everybody else. > > > There *are* easy work-arounds available - either do expert mode setup > > > which prompts you for this or I think there is a way to disable DCHP via > > > a boot option, you might want to check on those. > > > > Because there is a DHCP server responding on the network doesn't mean > > the user wants to use it, even when the user is "almost everybody > > else". That was the point. > > So are you argueing that there should be an additional dialog box saying > 'I've detected an DHCP server on your network. Do you want to use it > [Y/n]?' If not, then don't seem to understand your problem.
Well, I respectfully disagree. We should try to cut down on questions asked for the express install, not add to them. To the best of my knowledge, this question *is* asked, albeit with a lower debconf priority than is displayed by default. So lowering the debconf priority by selecting the expert install seems like a perfectly reasonable way to cater for non-standard setups. And I *do* believe that a non-desired DHCP server is a non-standard setup. Perhaps it should be documented better, but I haven't checked on the documentation, so I cannot comment on this. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
