Fresh Stretch install:

• Skip networking setup
• Hostname: dns1
• One big ext3 partition
• Agree to warning about no swap
• without network mirror

# nano /etc/hosts

129.97.134.71 mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca

# nano /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/debian/ stretch main

Get interface list [ens18 on the ones I tried so far]

# ls /sys/class/net/ 
# nano /etc/network/interfaces

auto ens18
iface ens18 inet static
   address 192.99.183.132
   netmask 255.255.255.255
   gateway 192.99.35.254