El mar, 13-09-2005 a las 10:29 -0400, Jim McQuillan escribió: > > On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Ricardo [ISO-8859-1] Prez Lpez wrote: > > > I'm trying to install Edubuntu Preview 5.10. > > > > I know Ubuntu try to autoconfigure ethernet connection using DHCP during > > installation. But Edubuntu doesn't try to find out a DHCP server to > > autoconfigure. Instead, it ask me to enter the IP address manually. > > > > Is it intentional? > > I'm not sure what the intended behaviour is for the ethernet interface. > > But my opinion (if anyone cares) is that the Edubuntu box is a server.
I guess Edubuntu is both a client and a server... > As a server, other machines are going to be connecting to it for various > things. > > And because of that, the Edubuntu machine should NOT have a dynamically > assigned address. It should be statically configured, so that it never > changes. Curiously, during installation I can skip the networking configuration, go to another virtual console, and type "dhclient eth0", which does the trick. This is the reason to ask about the no-dhcp configuration :/ > Jim McQuillan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
