This evening I thought I'd try the latest boot-floppies (3.0.21, the standard 6-diskette set) on a reinstall on the aged Compaq LTE 5150. It was to be a network install aside from the boot floppies, and the machine has a Xircom CE3 ethernet card. All of this was already setup and working, running Potato (that install was a bear, but it was done before I had the ethercard).
What I saw was that the PCMCIA setup seemed to go well, but when it came to the network setup it just wouldn't work. No error was reported on the install screen; it just looped back to the next task selection menu with configure network as the default selection. After several repitions I went back and rebooted and did it all over again with a clean partition. Same thing. So I did ifconfig and route by hand, found resolv.conf had the data I'd tried to enter through the dialog, and the rest of it went well. As well as possible on a 100MHz Pentium with 16MB of RAM and a slow hard drive, that is. :-) I'm probably going to be redoing this in a few days - this was a trial install using the partition that formerly held Windows - and I'm willing to look for more clues when I do that. Send suggestions: I've never had much trouble with a Debian install, so I'm sure there are debugging possibilities I've never yet seen. -- We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. -- Robert Wilensky -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
