On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 10:00:32AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-03-31 at 09:38, Haines Brown wrote: > > > Early in an installation I wanted to find the machine's local IP > > address in order to configure the network manually terminal (Alt-F2). > > Finding that commands to get the local addresss were not available, > > What commands did you try? I'd be a little surprised if nothing that > could do this was present in the installation environment, but it might > not be what you were expecting to use.
I forget which command I tried. Perhaps $ hostname -i > > > I went to exit bash. Although bash recognize the exit command, it did > > not work. > > "Did not work" is not usually a helpful description. What *did* happen? nothing > > > How do I get back to the installation routine? > > If you used Alt+F2 to get to the current console, you might need to > switch back to whichever console you were originally on. The default > expectation would be that you were probably on the first console, so you > should be able to get back there using Alt+F1. Thanks. This is an older machine, and so automatic configuration did not work with the hardware. ñI've never been able to insert the needed driver from a USB key. So turned to manual configuration, but it required that I know the machine's local IP. I finally opened a bash terminal and configured /etc/network/interfaces file manually. -- Haines Brown /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X against HTML e-mail / \