Re: d-i: almost success

[David Whedon <dwhedon@gordian.com>]

>   reason netcfg-manual had only put a "search" line in there. David?
wierd, I'll look at it.

> * went over to vc 2 and failed to ping debian.org
> * successfully pinged out by IP
> * told it to use the ip address of http.us.debian.org, and manually
>   configured it for that mirror
> * watched anna segfault instead of downloading anything :-(
> 
> So we're missing dns lookup stuff. Some of the necessary peices are:
>
weird, I'm pretty sure I got dns to work fine for me a week or so agoi, but
maybe I was dreaming. 

I assume you've committed all you changed to build your floppy?

> [2] I wonder if ethdetect would have managed this better. Perhaps we can
>     reenable it sometime?

I still haven't gotten ethdetect to detect isa cards, pci it is fine, but that's
just reading /proc.


David