Same problem here. Tried to reinstall Debian 9.6 from scratch, rename interface to eth0, install vmware-tools right after fresh install (since it’s running in a VM). We bought the professional full-version, reinstalled again, retried, changed eth hardware setup in ESXi -> Always same error:
[ERROR] Fatal Error Occurred: Unable to determine IP address of selected interface. Cannot continue
And then the script terminates and the network link is dead.
We suppose that the Debian netinst does not provide a tool/software that is required for the script to determine some network preferences. We installed the net tools (apt install net-tools) but this did not solve the issue either.
UPDATE - SOLVED
Reinstalled again. The problem was that the install.sh script has always disabled the network interface and then could not finish properly.
This time we switched to second console (CTRL+ALT+F2), logged in again and simply issued
ifup eth0
The network interface was back online. Next we switched back to the primary console (CTRL+ALT+F1). The script was asking for the network interface name. We entered “eth0” and voilà, it worked out.
This is obviously a bug in the script and should be fixed.