From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Received: by 10.98.79.143 with SMTP id f15mr3442124pfj.6.1452269821946; Fri, 08 Jan 2016 08:17:01 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: voidlinux@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.50.142.71 with SMTP id ru7ls1246097igb.34.canary; Fri, 08 Jan 2016 08:17:01 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.66.165.39 with SMTP id yv7mr53720886pab.28.1452269821511; Fri, 08 Jan 2016 08:17:01 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: from cp10.openaccess.org (cp10.openaccess.org. [66.114.45.2]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c5si44714pfj.1.2016.01.08.08.17.01 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 08 Jan 2016 08:17:01 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of li...@nvsbl.org designates 66.114.45.2 as permitted sender) client-ip=66.114.45.2; Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of li...@nvsbl.org designates 66.114.45.2 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=li...@nvsbl.org Received: from [92.69.207.8] (port=19522 helo=[10.26.247.142]) by cp10.openaccess.org with esmtps (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.86) (envelope-from ) id 1aHZil-0008Lg-9B for void...@googlegroups.com; Fri, 08 Jan 2016 08:17:00 -0800 Subject: Re: Network setup twice during void installation? References: <71a77c7f-8302-4290-9556-0f121c0865ea@googlegroups.com> From: sth Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-04AA4DAE-079F-4C6B-9E97-C3B105C146CA X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (12H321) In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <3A792A0B-9F2A-48AA-83A5-6F8EB044451C@nvsbl.org> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 17:16:54 +0100 To: voidlinux Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cp10.openaccess.org X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - googlegroups.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - nvsbl.org X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cp10.openaccess.org: acl_c_recent_authed_mail_ips_text_entry: li...@nvsbl.org|nvsbl.org X-Authenticated-Sender: cp10.openaccess.org: li...@nvsbl.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: --Apple-Mail-04AA4DAE-079F-4C6B-9E97-C3B105C146CA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I think PRs are gladly accepted, if you have time to look into this.=20 --seth > On 08 Jan 2016, at 15:25, Donald Allen wrote: >=20 >=20 >=20 >> On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 8:38:29 AM UTC-4, Donald Allen wrote= : >> Running void-installer, one of the early items is 'Network'. I dutifully= set up the network (in the install I just did, I set up the ethernet inter= face with a static IP address). The next step in the install relates to whe= re the installation files are coming from (I've forgotten the exact wording= in the menu). When you select that, you have two options: local and networ= k. If you select 'network' it asks you to set up the network again. As an e= xperiment, as this point I set it up to use dhcp, to see if the second setu= p over-rode the first. It does, as evidenced by the system coming up post-i= nstall with an assigned IP address, rather than the static address I'd prev= iously specified. What is going on here? On the face of it, asking twice fo= r the network setup makes no sense and I have not yet found any documentati= on explaining what the installer thinks it's doing. Is there a sensible rat= ionale for this or is it a bug? >>=20 >> /Don Allen >=20 > Any idea when this will be fixed? It really is pretty bogus and I'm surpr= ised that it hasn't been addressed in the four months since I originally po= sted this. I would think that asking the question "has the network already = been configured?" and skipping the request to set it up again (and then, af= ter collecting the information, failing -- a new behavior since I last trie= d Void, which is even more annoying; this is like calling your credit card = company, being asked to type in the account number and then when a human co= mes on the line, asks for your account number) would not be difficult. >=20 > /Don Allen=20 > --=20 > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups= "voidlinux" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an= email to voidlinux+...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to void...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgi= d/voidlinux/fec1ec1e-5b9a-4593-83af-0d4dce525ea0%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. --Apple-Mail-04AA4DAE-079F-4C6B-9E97-C3B105C146CA Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I think PRs are gladly accepted, i= f you have time to look into this. 

--seth

On 08 = Jan 2016, at 15:25, Donald Allen <donald...@gmail.com> wrote:

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On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 8:38:29 AM UTC-4, Donald A= llen wrote:
Ru= nning void-installer, one of the early items is 'Network'. I dutifully set = up the network (in the install I just did, I set up the ethernet interface = with a static IP address). The next step in the install relates to where th= e installation files are coming from (I've forgotten the exact wording in t= he menu). When you select that, you have two options: local and network. If= you select 'network' it asks you to set up the network again. As an experi= ment, as this point I set it up to use dhcp, to see if the second setup ove= r-rode the first. It does, as evidenced by the system coming up post-instal= l with an assigned IP address, rather than the static address I'd previousl= y specified. What is going on here? On the face of it, asking twice for the= network setup makes no sense and I have not yet found any documentation ex= plaining what the installer thinks it's doing. Is there a sensible rational= e for this or is it a bug?

/Don Allen
Any idea when this will be fixed? It really is pretty bogus and I'm surpri= sed that it hasn't been addressed in the four months since I originally pos= ted this. I would think that asking the question "has the network already b= een configured?" and skipping the request to set it up again (and then, aft= er collecting the information, failing -- a new behavior since I last tried= Void, which is even more annoying; this is like calling your credit card c= ompany, being asked to type in the account number and then when a human com= es on the line, asks for your account number) would not be difficult.
/Don Allen

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