** Description changed: + [Impact] The supported "network --bootproto=static" Kickstart option is broken during installation, so it's hard for users to tell how to preseed a static network configuration using Kickstart. + [Test Case] Put a file somewhere web-server-accessible on your local network with "network --bootproto=static --hostname=statictest.pelham.vpn.ucam.org --ip=10.0.2.16 --netmask=255.255.255.0 --gateway=10.0.2.2 --nameserver=10.0.2.3" (this is suitable for my local network with KVM; adjust to match your local environment). Boot the installer with ks=http://url/to/that/file. Once installation finishes, you should have a static network configuration, not a dynamic one using DHCP. Note that this test needs to be carried out using an installer image rebuilt against the new kickseed; we'll make one available in -proposed at some point shortly after this kickseed change is accepted into -proposed. + [Regression Potential] Confined to Kickstart, since kickseed is used for nothing else. I considered backporting the compatibility fix to netcfg instead, but that would have had a larger regression potential. + + Original report follows: + In previous Ubuntu versions you used to be able to start the network installation using DHCP, and then switch over to a static network configuration in your kickstart file, with a line like: == network --bootproto=static --ip=1.2.3.4 --netmask=255.255.255.0 --gateway=1.2.3.1 --nameserver=8.8.8.8 --hostname=dhcpunit == However in Ubuntu 11.10 that does not seem to work, and it is still using DHCP after installation.
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