From: "Buchan Milne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Allen wrote: > > On Thursday 02 October 2003 21:05, Buchan Milne wrote: > > > >>>Please add: > >>> > >>>Error scenario: when doing a network install, on recent machines, the > >> > >>network card seems to not respond (no DHCP answer received for example) > >> > >> > >>>Why: problem with APIC > >> > > > > Also the other problem is nForce motherboards, as there are no nForce > drivers > > included (I know they are propietary) > > > > For the future, would it be possible for the installer to prompt for > > additional drivers. > > >
It already does in expert mode... > And do what? > > All the commercial versions ship with the appropriate drivers. AFAIK, > the NForce drivers are only needed for the on-board network card? For > network installs, it should be possible to create a driver disk (Thomas > has done this before I think?) > Yeah, so for nForce network, you need to compile the module against the correct kernel, and copy the resulting 'nvnet.o' to a ext2 formatted floppy... Thomas
