Re: install glitch - re. networking

2011-11-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Miles Fidelman wrote: > >>Up to now, hardware autodetect has worked just fine - finding both NICs, > >>identifying them, and giving me a choice. Now it all just hangs. I > >>expect that I could escape out of the installer, and plug in some magic > >>incantations - but a little guidance is what I'

Re: install glitch - re. networking

2011-11-08 Thread Brian
On Mon 07 Nov 2011 at 19:47:41 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > So the question remains, why doesn't the Squeeze installer see either of > them - or more to the point, why does it hang when it goes looking? The > installer goes off into the "detecting network hardware" step and never > return

Re: install glitch - re. networking

2011-11-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
Walter Hurry wrote: On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:03:14 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Walter Hurry wrote: On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:43:24 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: I find myself in an odd situation: - I have a box I use as a sandbox, at home - I've installed all kinds of different distributions on

Re: install glitch - re. networking

2011-11-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:03:14 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Walter Hurry wrote: >> On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:43:24 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: >> >>> I find myself in an odd situation: >>> >>> - I have a box I use as a sandbox, at home - I've installed all kinds >>> of different distributions on it

Re: install glitch - re. networking

2011-11-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
Walter Hurry wrote: On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:43:24 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: I find myself in an odd situation: - I have a box I use as a sandbox, at home - I've installed all kinds of different distributions on it over the past couple of years - I recently installed OpenSuse with no problem

Re: install glitch - re. networking

2011-11-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:43:24 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > I find myself in an odd situation: > > - I have a box I use as a sandbox, at home - I've installed all kinds of > different distributions on it over the past couple of years > > - I recently installed OpenSuse with no problems, but then

install glitch - re. networking

2011-11-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
I find myself in an odd situation: - I have a box I use as a sandbox, at home - I've installed all kinds of different distributions on it over the past couple of years - I recently installed OpenSuse with no problems, but then I tried to reinstall Debian (Squeeze) off a CD-Rom, and the instal