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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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