On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 06:49:35PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 07:26:55PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > > Me neither, but what the user was insinuating is that he doesn't > > necessarily know the *right* answers, and wants to have a system > > where he can try many different combinations without having to start > > the install from the beginning each time. Myself, I would just grab > > the shell and muck with all the settings by hand until I found the > > one that works, but this isn't something that every person knows how > > to do, I guess. Hard to believe, really. > > well frankly you need to know the fscking network numbers before going > to setup a computer on the network, if you don't know what your > network numbers are that can hardly be blamed on debian. dammit Jim > im an installer not a psychic!
but computers are just supposed to work! You plug them in and you get a pretty screen... ok ok ok enough of that. That is what dhcp is for, and we support that just fine. > > and you can redo the `setup the network' step as many times as you > want before rebooting the box, and console 2 is there so you can do a > quick test (i think ping is there). > But it's not part of the GUI!! You can't do anything without a GUI, right? heh, Am I making sence? no... Mike
