Re: [Freedos-user] install bug?

2007-10-15 Thread Glenn Becker
> Ahhh okay you mean you selected the "edit file" option of > the network setup menu. Well I guess you still have network > troubles. I guess the main issue there, for me, was that the install just seemed to hang forever, rather than dump out to any kind of "networking is not working" message w

Re: [Freedos-user] install bug?

2007-10-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi again! > I neglected to mention that the setup went into another hung state > after I finished hand-editing the file. Ahhh okay you mean you selected the "edit file" option of the network setup menu. Well I guess you still have network troubles. But on the other hand, a simple solution might

Re: [Freedos-user] install bug?

2007-10-15 Thread Glenn Becker
> I tried again with (3), manual entry, but found it strange that this also > presents one with a file with no place to enter nameserver. It is easy > enough to type nameserver=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx but I wasn't certain I was using > the correct configuration/naming convention whatever. I neglected to

[Freedos-user] install bug?

2007-10-15 Thread Glenn Becker
Hi all - One issue I encountered both while trying to install FreeDOS under Linux and on its own dedicated partition had to do with the networking setup. As I recall one is presented with 3 options: 1) DHCP (default) 2) static IP Q-and-A 3) Edit .cfg manually (I'm paraphrasing there) Since I