-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:35:29AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 00:20 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:35:59AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > > However, > > > after finishing the crippled install without the network, the reboot made > > > eth0 to work again. After the reboot the ifup/ifdown commands were > > > available! > > Can you explain why ifup/ifdown is not available in the shell during > install but after reboot? Is the ifupdown package part of the network > install?
The install program is not a full blow system. It doesn't use the very same utilities as an installed system. > BTW: I did try the netinst CD several times both rescue and install, > without any luck with the network. > Another question: Why to go through the same menu in rescue mode as in > install? Normally you want to fix things in a shell, like writing the > MBR, check disks, edit fstab etc. In this case you don't primarily need > the network! I see the "It does NOT work as I expect it should do". [1] > > Please describe the hardware that you use. Especial the network hardware. > lspci -v: > 00:05.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 > (rev 41) Okay, it is a PCI device, that is better then I expected from the original posting. ( the O.P. didn't tell anything about the hardware ) > The computer is a Compaq Presario 5670 with a VIA Nehemiah CPU. > Kernels are 2.6.17-1-686 and 2.5.15-1-486 (netinst kernel). I was > recommended to use the irqpoll option for the boot but did not have to > use this switch before. This box has been running Mandrake Cooker for > many years now but when the rpm database was trashed I gave up and > switched to Debian (as for all the other 5 boxes at home). Great! Five working boxes makes it easy to explain that the non-working box is the odd one. Where you were ranting^Wlooking for ping and other debug tools not available, we forgot to speak about the tools that are available. What says `ifconfig`, `lsmod` `lspci | grep Ethernet` inside d-i? Cheers Geert Stappers [1] I could say 'sorry', I could say 'you are allowed to keep all the pieces', but I have no time for a flame war. Nor I have time to explain the design of (parts of) d-i. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFErhupOSINbgwa/7sRAvqAAJkB5t0ELyMzUk67qCZPrbAxU+dV0wCgrSzC G17YVQrnBilBc5CQHyRLv3o= =W5/K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
