On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:51, Bhasker C V wrote: > I downloaded etch DVDs and found that the console at Alt+F2 gives a > shell which does not have ping utility which comes handy many places. > Is there a possibility of adding ping to the CD/DVD ?
Ping has been left out of the installer on purpose because it is not essential. For simple connection testing you can use wget instead (e.g. wget http://hostname). wget can succeed but also gives different answers if a host cannot be reached, or is not a webserver. Cheers, FJP
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