Bug#57111: Forced network install

["Ross Boylan" <rboylan@mindspring.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Gybas [mailto:stefan@gybas.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 1:48 PM
> To: RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org; 57111@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Bug#57111: Forced network install
>
>
> Ross Boylan wrote:
>
> > Your final paragraph may describe how the setup is supposed to
> operate, but
> > it definitely does not describe how it worked for me.  I tried several
> > times, loading only ppp, serial, and ntfs drivers--NO ethernet drivers.
>
> So there is a ppp interface? I guess netconfig is then configuring this
> interface.
>

There is a ppp interface.  However, the questions concerned my domain name
and other stuff I would only expect to see on a LAN.  Furthermore the
questions specifically referred to "eth0".
> > I repeat that I got the dialog asking for a system name (as
> expected), and
> > the very next dialog was asking me a bunch of ethernet type
> questions.  I
> > did NOT get a choice of skipping this.
>
> It did not ask about DHCP? So it did not find an Ethernet-like
> interface and
> continues with the manual configuration.

The next dialog I referred to was one asking about DHCP.
>
> --
> Stefan Gybas
>