OK, my relevant extra info: Theories about differing versions in Cooker, beta 1, from different sites don't really wash IMO because I have the same problem with the 8.2 network bootdisk; can others having the problem check this?
It seems some people with the problem use 3Com cards, but i'm afraid i'll have to shoot this promising line down, since one of my systems on which it fails has a Genius PCMCIA card (uses the pcnet_cs module) and the other had some no-name card when I tried, I forget what module but it wasn't 3com. Our network setup - we have an ADSL connection which comes in through an ADSL modem / router (D-Link brand, I think) at 192.168.1.1 and is passed to a router / gateway (ActionTec Wireless-Ready Home Gateway) at 192.168.2.1, into which our systems (between two and five, depending) are plugged; on both systems that failed I tried DHCP and static IP addresses with the same crash. In the spirit of scientific enquiry, next time I try it i'll throw our new wireless LAN cards into the mix. =). Damn, hope we can fix this sometime soon; as I mentioned i'll try the install again when beta 2 comes out, to provide further info on my problems with both floppy and CD installs... -- adamw
