If you do not have a network card, you will not see this screen. Please
skip ahead to the next section, the section called Time Zone Configuration.
If you have a network card and you have not already configured your
networking, you now have the opportunity (as shown in Figure 4-9).
If you have multiple devices, you will see a tab for each device. You
may switch between devices (for example, between eth0 and eth1) and the
information you provide on each tab will be specific to each device.
Choose whether you would like to configure your IP address using DHCP
(Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol). If you select Activate
on boot, your network interface will be started when you
boot. If you do not have DHCP client access or you are unsure what to
provide here, please contact your network administrator.
Next enter, where applicable, the IP Address,
Netmask, Network, and
Broadcast addresses. If you are unsure about any of
these, please contact your network administrator.
If you have a fully qualified domain name for the network device, enter
it in the Hostname field.
 | Tip |
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| | Even if your computer is not part of a network, you can enter a
hostname for your system. If you do not take this opportunity to
enter in a name, your system will be known as
localhost.
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Finally, enter the Gateway and Primary
DNS (and if applicable the Secondary DNS
and Ternary DNS) addresses.
