You can preseed netcfg/dhcp_timeout to the number of seconds you want the timeout to be. See the installation guide:
https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu/installation-guide/i386/preseed- contents.html#preseed-network ** Changed in: netcfg (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- DHCP Negotiation Timeout https://launchpad.net/bugs/70721 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
