----- Forwarded message from Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:17:10 +0000 To: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#281924: Debian-installer report X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6
Hello Joey. On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 17:41, Joey Hess wrote: > Chris Lale wrote: > > Perhaps this is an omission rather than an error. I could not install when > > I configured the network > > with DHCP. The installation hung trying to fetch packages from the mirror. > > I suspect this was because > > it had not asked me for my ISP's nameservers. > > dhcp should provide namesever info. Sounds to me like this might be a > broken dhcp setup on your isp. Thanks for the reply. I am not using DHCP from my ISP. My ASDL router/modem is a D-Link DSL-G604T. It is running an internal DHCP server and providing my box with an IP address. So, when I selected DHCP during the install I assume that it allocated my box a dynamic IP on the local "network" as usual. What I did not have the opportunity to do was to supply my ISP's nameservers. That must be why it could not find the Debian mirror. The D-Link DSL-G604T is configured with address 192.168.1.1. When I reinstalled, I chose manual network configuration and supplied and IP address for my box (192.168.1.99). The installer gave sensible suggestions for the netmask (255.255.255.0, I think) and gateway (192.168.1.1). It then asked me for nameservers, which I supplied, and everything went OK. It is the nameserver step that was missing when I chose the DHCP route. Hope this makes things clearer. Chris. -- Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- End forwarded message ----- -- see shy jo
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