Hi Frans,
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 03:47, Mike Hore wrote:After network detection failed, please switch to VT2 (on a PC this is alt-F2; I guess option-F2 or something similar on Macs) and enter the following command:Comments/Problems: The Ethernet connection is not detected. This machine has an 10/100BASE-T Ethernet port. I suspect the correct driver hasn't been included in the netinstall image.lspci -nn | grep Ethernet We need the PCI Id of that device, which looks like [xxxx:xxxx].
0001:03:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. Shasta (Sun GEM) [106b:0051]
Since this is a netinstall and the network can't be initialized, I couldn't proceed beyond this point.This is not true. Netinst CDs contain the full base system, so you can complete an installation without a network card. You would end up with a fairly minimal, but completely functioning system.
OK, I guess that's right, if you know what you're doing, but with the little Linux I know I'm basically stuck.
Now I probably should have mentioned that BEFORE the Ethernet detection attempt, I got another message to say that some kernel modules could not be found, and should I proceed without them, and the installation might fail if I proceeded. I assumed this was because I was attempting a netinstall, but for all I know that assumption might have been wrong.
Cheers, Mike.
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Mike Hore mike_hore@aapt.net.au
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