ubuntu 7.10 install

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:54:54PM -0500, chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote:
> I'm going to re-install ubuntu. I've so thoroughly pooched my system that a 
> re-install is needed. For instance I can't even get into the system as 
> regular user. The worst is having to use webmail (instead of thunderbird) 
> for troubleshooting help. 
> 
> Before I get started I thought I'd clear up something. When configuring IP 
> address should I choose dhcp, static or what? I have cable Internet access. 
> I just want to make sure that other computers in our home will be able to 
> print across the network to the printer attached to this machine. Also, I 
> use scp across the network for backups. I've made this more complicated in 
> the past than it should be so I thought I'd ask before I do this. I've 
> cosen dhcp in the past thiking that means I'm saying yes to my isp 
> assigning me an ip address via dhcp. Apparently that is not how it works. 
> THe isp only gives an ip address to my router and then the router gives me 
> a local address? If so, what do I answer when asked about things-network 
> while installing ubuntu? 

If you want to have a fixed IP, then select static and enter the values.
Since you are behind a router you don't need dhcp to get an IP from the
internet since only the router has to do that step.

> I'm not really looking forward to this - the biggest thing is setting up 
> raid again - looks like I did it okay last time (my first time) but now I'm 
> going to have to re-learn the concepts. 

--
Len Sorensen
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists