Hi-
This is my first install report, apoligies for errors, welcome correction.thanks, Erik Dykema
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Jan 12 Daily, from http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/
uname -a: Linux 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30.39 i686 unknown Date: Jan 8, 2004, 11:00am
Method: Network install via pxelinux: pxelinux.cfg/default:
LABEL sarge KERNEL vmlinuz APPEND load initrd=netboot-initrd.gz devfs=mount ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/ram0 console=tty0
Machine: Dell PowerApp Web 100 Processor: 1 Pentium 2 Memory: 128 MB Root Device: Adaptec AIC-7892a Root Size/partition table: disk1 resiserfs 9 gigs disk5 linux swap 256 megs
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [O] Install boot loader: [O] Reboot: [E] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Everything seems to work great up until the moment that the machine reboots. After this point, the network seems to be lost. I put in my mirror information, and it comes back and says 'Temporary Failure Resolving...'.
I dropped into a shell and ran ifconfig -a, and it showed me the interfaces, I looked in dmesg and it loaded the correct drivers (eepro100), it just for some reason failed dhcp, perhaps it timed out.
I ran dhclient and it worked, bound the adapter to the address, and now installation seems to be proceeding normally.
I think that either dhclient wasn't run before, or it failed / timed out, and wasn't retried, nor was warning given.
Perhaps the proper behavior should be to try DHCP, and if it fails give a 'Try again sometimes it's slow' dialogue like in the initial installer boot.
thanks, Erik
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