The installer not finding (or configuring) a DNS server is no big deal.
The DNS server(s) address should be configured in
You can edit that file (or create it if it doesn't exist) and put the ip address of your desired DNS server in there.
A directive "nameserver" plus single ip address will suffice, on the first and only line in the file, fully left justified.
For example to use Google's DNS server which is at 8.8.8.8 simply edit your resolv.conf to be like this:
and reboot your box.
EDIT: Original post was technically incorrect, edited post to correct my mistake.
Last edited by hicksd8; 11-03-2018 at 05:22 PM..
Reason: Technical correction: include "nameserver"
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