Still Can't Install Sarge/Etch (no route)
I apologize for pestering everyone, but I really don't want to
abandon Debian for something this simple after having used it for so long.
My ISP requires registration of a MAC address through an HTML
interface, which I do in Windows XP. They also require initializing
the network with DHCP. When I try this in Debian, it doesn't work,
though I have used Debian -many- years before last year.
I have tried to install sarge with the 3.1r5 "business card" netinst
disc, and etch with the full netinst daily build disc from Mar. 4
'07. It detects my hardware fine, loads my modules fine, and
configures with DHCP fine, but every mirror gives "Bad Mirror or No
Repository" (I'm approximating that from memory; it's a blood-red
screen), and trying to use wget from a side console on the installer
gives "no route to host". The route command gives normal results: my
own netmask goes to me, and the default is my gateway.
I had been able to install sarge on a box that was masqueraded
through the XP box. That one used the network fine with a manual IP
configuration of a private IP address. I hooked that one directly
into the wall and reconfigured with dhcp, but again, it got
everything fine...right IP number, broadcast, gateway, resolv.conf,
but it couldn't get anywhere.
I tried SLAX Standard Edition live CD v5.1.8.1 and it gets onto the
Internet with no configuration needed. I just installed Slackware
11.0 and (after I got it to figure out which interface was internal
and which was external, which required nothing more than "dhcpcd
eth1" for the moment) it gets onto the Internet fine with no further
configuration of DHCP.
Please, does anyone have any ideas? I have pretty much demonstrated
this is a problem with only the current Debian installer on my
system, no matter which installer I try. Slackware doesn't impress
me, RedHat is no longer free (as well as not impressing me), and
Ubuntu is just...weird. Nothing else is really tripping my trigger. I
want to use Debian, but first I have to be -able- to use it.
Thanks for your time.
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