> My impression from Carl's post was that he was asked for an IP address
> for the http server. 

Yes. Just server though, http or whatever else.

> I can understand being asked for the IP address for a DNS server, but
> that should be the only external IP address info the setup program needs,
> and it should only need that if it is not supplied by DHCP.

Remember you are at a nothing point: no hard disk, no swap, limited RAM.
Do you really want to force everyone to have a DHCP server at hand? (gee
thanks) Do you have a DNS server reachable? (probably) Are you able to
handle DNS in the first place? (questionable) How many potential errors
can you think up? How do you handle them? Ugh. Or you could just ask for
the IP of the server... that always works, every time (ok unless the
server has additional funny requirements). This isn't SuSE-specific
either.

Btw that fast.co.nz mirror is ftp://fast.co.nz/suse/i386/ I had some
trouble finding it. Half of its contents seem to be "host doesn't
exist".  http://wiki.linux.net.nz/NewZealandLinuxMirrors

Volker

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