Bug 34551

Summary:	Hard to find instructions in step 21.
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	Bill <bpetrick>
Component:	Gentoo Linux x86 Installation Guide	Assignee:	Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) <swift>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	docs-team
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Bill 2003-11-27 15:17:50 UTC

Step 21 (Final Network Configuration). The instructions are well hidden in this step. Since the liveCD detected my network card and accessed the internet without a problem and I copied settings to my gentoo installation, I assumed the network configuration was OK. Not true. The /etc/conf.d/net needed to edited to add "dhcp" to the configuration. It took me awhile to find this.

Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-27 23:49:03 UTC

This is clearly mentioned in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml#doc_chap21_sect2 (obsoleted 
document) and http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1&chap=8#doc_chap3_sect2. 
Both documents explain that "dhcp" is for automatic IP retrieval.