unusual network installation problem

2007-11-17 Thread Willie
I'm trying to install debian at work from a local mirror (we have no external internat access), but I need to set my ethernet MAC address just before the installer accesses the mirror to allow me through the cisco switch between me and the mirror. It looks like the busybox version of ifconfig

Re: unusual network installation problem

2007-11-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Willie wrote: I'm trying to install debian at work from a local mirror (we have no external internat access), but I need to set my ethernet MAC address just before the installer accesses the mirror to allow me through the cisco switch between me and the mirror. It looks like the busybox version

Re: network installation using local mirror for security updates

2007-09-17 Thread Malte Forkel
Bob schrieb: Malte Forkel wrote: bUg. wrote: for example deb file:///home/debian/security lenny/updates main contrib non-free Malte Forkel пишет: I recently installed Etch by booting a machine from the net using PXE and specifying a local mirror of ftp.debian.de to the installer. All went

Re: network installation using local mirror for security updates

2007-09-17 Thread Malte Forkel
Gilles Mocellin schrieb: Le Saturday 15 September 2007 15:21:19 bUg., vous avez écrit : for example deb file:///home/debian/security lenny/updates main contrib non-free Malte Forkel пишет: I recently installed Etch by booting a machine from the net using PXE and specifying a local mirror of

Re: network installation using local mirror for security updates

2007-09-17 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Saturday 15 September 2007 15:21:19 bUg., vous avez écrit : for example deb file:///home/debian/security lenny/updates main contrib non-free Malte Forkel пишет: I recently installed Etch by booting a machine from the net using PXE and specifying a local mirror of ftp.debian.de to the

Re: network installation using local mirror for security updates

2007-09-17 Thread Bob
Malte Forkel wrote: Bob schrieb: 8 snip etch installer slow as it grabs updates from nonlocal mirror Just don't let it update at install time but wait until after first boot when you can hand tune /etc/apt/sources.list alternatively you could edit the hosts file of your firewall so it

Re: network installation using local mirror for security updates

2007-09-16 Thread Bob
Malte Forkel wrote: bUg. wrote: for example deb file:///home/debian/security lenny/updates main contrib non-free Malte Forkel пишет: I recently installed Etch by booting a machine from the net using PXE and specifying a local mirror of ftp.debian.de to the installer. All went well but I

network installation using local mirror for security updates

2007-09-15 Thread Malte Forkel
I recently installed Etch by booting a machine from the net using PXE and specifying a local mirror of ftp.debian.de to the installer. All went well but I noticed that during the installation security.debian.org was accessed for updates. As I also have a local mirror of that: How do I tell the

Re: network installation using local mirror for security updates

2007-09-15 Thread bUg.
for example deb file:///home/debian/security lenny/updates main contrib non-free Malte Forkel пишет: I recently installed Etch by booting a machine from the net using PXE and specifying a local mirror of ftp.debian.de to the installer. All went well but I noticed that during the

Re: network installation using local mirror for security updates

2007-09-15 Thread Malte Forkel
bUg. wrote: for example deb file:///home/debian/security lenny/updates main contrib non-free Malte Forkel пишет: I recently installed Etch by booting a machine from the net using PXE and specifying a local mirror of ftp.debian.de to the installer. All went well but I noticed that during

Problem with entering bios setup after interrupted network installation

2007-03-13 Thread Piotr pzc
Hi, About 2 weeks ago I bought a FSC Amilo Pro V3505 laptop. Last Wednesday I tried to install on it Debian from network (using Netinstal CD). However my Network card wasn't detected and installation failed. After message that no card has been detected I tried to pick some random models in hope

Re: Problem with entering bios setup after interrupted network installation

2007-03-13 Thread Kent West
Piotr pzc wrote: Hi, About 2 weeks ago I bought a FSC Amilo Pro V3505 laptop. Last Wednesday I tried to install on it Debian from network (using Netinstal CD). However my Network card wasn't detected and installation failed. After message that no card has been detected I tried to pick some

Re: Bad mirror error during network installation

2006-12-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Andrew Sackville-West([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:56:12PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: Today the best one [1], for me, keeps dropping out while I'm upgraiding. [1] debian.fifi.org I use debian.midco.net and it always works great for me.

Re: Bad mirror error during network installation

2006-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:59:17PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: Andrew Sackville-West([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:56:12PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: Today the best one [1], for me, keeps dropping out while I'm upgraiding. [1]

Re: Bad mirror error during network installation

2006-12-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Andrew Sackville-West([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:59:17PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: Andrew Sackville-West([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:56:12PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: Today the best one [1], for

Bad mirror error during network installation

2006-12-05 Thread maarten fiege
LS I'm trying to install debian using a network installation. Everything works great untill my pc searches for a debian mirror. I've tried several mirrors included the recommended mirrors and even the official US mirror, but the the massage bad mirror keeps coming up. What can be the problem

Re: Bad mirror error during network installation

2006-12-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:44:01AM -0800, maarten fiege wrote: LS I'm trying to install debian using a network installation. Everything works great untill my pc searches for a debian mirror. I've tried several mirrors included the recommended mirrors and even the official US mirror

Re: Bad mirror error during network installation

2006-12-05 Thread Wayne Topa
maarten fiege([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: LS I'm trying to install debian using a network installation. Everything works great untill my pc searches for a debian mirror. I've tried several mirrors included the recommended mirrors and even the official US mirror

Re: Bad mirror error during network installation

2006-12-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:56:12PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: Today the best one [1], for me, keeps dropping out while I'm upgraiding. [1] debian.fifi.org I use debian.midco.net and it always works great for me. check out apt-spy. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Network Installation

2006-06-14 Thread Philippe De Ryck
Because the computer has only CD ROM drive one must get about 12 CDROMS to get both tools and be finally able to perform network installation (at this stage no more needed) I would be very glad if you could place the both tools on both the minimal and the first CDROM. Hi, Don't know about

Network Installation

2006-06-13 Thread Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann
tools and be finally able to perform network installation (at this stage no more needed) I would be very glad if you could place the both tools on both the minimal and the first CDROM. best regards -- Mirosław Dobrzański-Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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2006-03-29 Thread Peterson Raydan Fontes Ursine
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Network installation from a centralixed server

2004-07-28 Thread Vijaya S
hi , I was thinking of creating a server that holds all images of Linux distros with updated packages For ex: Debian (sarge) Debian (woody) Redhat And people should able to connect to it and download and instlal the images in few mintures rather than me installing on each

Re: Network installation from a centralixed server

2004-07-28 Thread John Summerfield
Vijaya S wrote: hi , I was thinking of creating a server that holds all images of Linux distros with updated packages For ex: Debian (sarge) Debian (woody) Redhat And people should able to connect to it and download and instlal the images in few mintures rather than me

Re: network installation

2000-06-06 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, Thanks for all the replied I got from this group. Speaking of NFS? How do I set it up on the existed Debian box and the new box? Thanks! Ron Rademaker wrote: You just do a normal install with boot disks, then you install the rest using nfs or apt or ftp (you can install the

network installation

2000-06-05 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, Could someone please tell me how to install an new machine from the network? I have one machine which mirror the potota distribution and like to install via the network. Thanks! --- tcp [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: network installation

2000-06-05 Thread Ron Flory
Timothy C. Phan wrote: Hi, Could someone please tell me how to install an new machine from the network? I have one machine which mirror the potota distribution and like to install via the network. which arch? x86? ron

Re: network installation

2000-06-05 Thread Ron Rademaker
You just do a normal install with boot disks, then you install the rest using nfs or apt or ftp (you can install the base system with nfs). Ron Rademaker PS. Some computers can handle booting from the net (eg. a sparc), if you got such a computer, maybe you don't have to make disks. On Mon, 5

Re: PCMCIA Network Installation

2000-02-20 Thread Dave Whiteley
I think that I have now successfully installed a PCMCIA network card on my IBM thinkpad 380d. I used the most recent copy of the potato boot disks. What I did find was that it was vital that the card was not plugged in during initial software installation. Only after you have completed the

Re: PCMCIA Network Installation

2000-02-16 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Dave Whiteley; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I have an Ethernet Gold II PCMCIA card, (GCS2220) Looking at Linux Laptop documentation it suggests that this card uses pcnet_cs. I have run the Configure PCMCIA in the installation process before configuring the drivers. I accepted

PCMCIA Network Installation

2000-02-15 Thread Dave Whiteley
PCMCIA Network Installation ? I am trying to install potato on an IBM thinkpad 380. As I do not have access to potato CDs I am intending to get the debs from a local mirror. I have created a set of floppies, and all goes well except that I have been unable to get it to talk to the network

Re: Network Installation Problem

1999-01-09 Thread Tom Champion
Thank you for all the support that I have received. I found the following commands worked. insmod 8390 insmod ne io=0x340 sh /etc/init.d/network Tom.