Hi all and thanks so much for Unattended! I'm a longtime UNIX admin
and recently started a new admin job at a mainly Windows shop...talk
about a fish out of water. Anyway deploying Unattended has impressed
my employer and made me look good :)

Now about this DHCP problem, I have seen this exact same behavior Ryan
reports, in my case on old Dell laptops using pcmcia cards for
networking.

The solution I found is...after you get dumped to the shell prompt
simply execute
/etc/master

This starts up the unattended config script again getting you a DHCP lease 
and continuing on as normal.

I don't understand why running master a second time works but it does.

Regards,
Veedar


> Ryan Gallagher
> Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:28:12 -0800
> 
> Hi everyone,
>
>
> I have two computers a Dell Optiplex GX260 and an Optiplex GX270. Both of 
> these
>  computers have integrated network cards, and neither seems to be able to get 
> an IP 
> address. When I boot from the Linux CD, the network card gets detected 
> correctly, but 
> never gets an IP. The debug message will just display until it dumps to the 
> shell. These 
> computers both work fine with windows installed and get IP addresses without 
> a problem. I > am not sure why this is happening. Every other computer I have 
> tried the boot disk on has > worked correctly.
>
> Thanks for any insight you can provide.


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