[24167] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux installer and syncconf
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Wed Sep 17 15:33:22 2003
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:33:19 -0400
Message-Id: <200309171933.h8HJXJZ9010676@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: foley@MIT.EDU
CC: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <tyzbrtkaks7.fsf@m66-080-6.mit.edu> (message from Joe Foley on
Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:08:08 -0400)
>I recently did a linux install of the is-linux on a friend's machine
>and discovered that the dhcp option is still not quite right. It would
>be fine except that it leaves both the hostname and IP address blank
>which makes the machine not start up when the install completes.
There are two places where the installer treats DHCP addresses
differently:
1) Right after booting from the CD or floppy, you can go to the advanced
configuration screen and choose DHCP instead of entering a static
address, or...
2) Late in the install, during the "20 questions" phase, you can choose
to have the machine use only DHCP addressing intead of specifying a
static address for it.
I'm assuming you did #1, but not #2, which looks like it should have the
reported effects. (There are other combinations which lose in different
and less painful ways.) In any case, I'm about to submit a patch to fix
this; it should be available publicly within a week or so.
