On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:59:37PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Cameron Patrick wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:34:55PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> >
> > | If you do DHCP, it gets a hostname from the server, or sometimes falls
> > | back to a bad default of "localhost". This is an area that needs
Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:34:55PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> | If you do DHCP, it gets a hostname from the server, or sometimes falls
> | back to a bad default of "localhost". This is an area that needs more
> | work still, but in the daily builds you will be prompted fo
* Geert Stappers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031217 13:48]:
> > Pretending that "the masses" have a DHCP server available is just silly.
>
> There is more to configure then the network.
This is a important point. But in my eyes it is a reason to ask more
questions, as daredevil guessing might have a goo
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:26:33AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Mmmm, debian-installer is some what targeted to the masses[1] by default.
> Pretending that "the masses" have a DHCP server available is just silly.
"The masses" my employer services generally have DHCP-se
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Joey Hess wrote:
> Michael Renner wrote:
>
> You can get the ability to do manual configuration if you boot with
> DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium. Whether we should ask about it by default is
> debatable, and you'll be asked about several other things that are
> similarly grey in t
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:34:55PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
| If you do DHCP, it gets a hostname from the server, or sometimes falls
| back to a bad default of "localhost". This is an area that needs more
| work still, but in the daily builds you will be prompted for a hostname
| after you reboot i
Michael Renner wrote:
> *) Lack of keymap selection: I chose "English/United states" at the first
> dialog because I loathe i18n'ed status/error messages. This apparently set
> also the keymap to us.
This will be fixed in the next beta.
> *) No choice to use manual IP setup when using the "net" i
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:26:33AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >Mmmm, debian-installer is some what targeted to the masses[1] by default.
| |[1] for many people and for the few that do mass installs.
> Pretending that "the masses" have a DHCP server available is just
On December 17, 2003 05:26 am, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Mmmm, debian-installer is some what targeted to the masses[1] by default.
>
> Pretending that "the masses" have a DHCP server available is just silly.
Many of the masses have broadband connections and cheapie routers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Mmmm, debian-installer is some what targeted to the masses[1] by default.
Pretending that "the masses" have a DHCP server available is just silly.
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:18:28AM +0100, Michael Renner wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Thanks for the big improvements to the debian installer (compared to the
> one shipped with 3.0), it greatly reduced the amount of time needed to
> install debian on boxes with "nonstandard" hardware (which usually
> involve
Hi!
Thanks for the big improvements to the debian installer (compared to the
one shipped with 3.0), it greatly reduced the amount of time needed to
install debian on boxes with "nonstandard" hardware (which usually
involves using additional driver floppy disks or temporary installations
on ide dri
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