V Thu, 27 Dec 2018 13:43:57 -0700
Larry Dewey
Hi everyone,
I have noticed in the past few releases of openSUSE Tumbleweed, and in openSUSE Leap, that there is no way to configure the hostname, dns, and IP address of a machine during the installation process. I am aware that it can be set after the installation using YAST, etc, but it used to be available in previous builds. I was just curious if there was a reason behind why this was taken out?
Thanks,
Hi Larry, thanks for question. It is still there a way to configure hostname, dns and also IP address. But to help less advanced users and more smooth installer experience we did a change. So how it works now? It tries at the beginning of installation dhcp on all network interfaces and if it get configuration for any card, then it will skip the network configuration screen. But if dhcp does not succeed, it will show that screen. You can try it yourself in VM, if you configure it to not get DHCP or by simple removing all network interfaces. We believe that this new way satisfy majority of users as dhcp is now preferred way and if no dhcp is available you can configure it. So only users that have more complicated way is the ones that have dhcp, but want manual configuration. These users need to configure it after installation. I hope this answers your question. Josef -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org