Bug#58051: Network install using PCMCIA totally hosed
>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Gybas <stefan@gybas.com> writes:
Stefan> "Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote:
>> Either way, following the base install, the network was not
>> configured, and the package install failed.
Stefan> This should be fixed in 2.2.7 - could you please try this
Stefan> version?
Not even close. This one I can't even get to work by beating it with
a baseball bat.
1. It gets stuck on "Install OS/kernel" I tried that two or three
times but it just kept returning to that step. (I was installing
from a Windows 98 partition which it had no problem recognizing;
anyway, no error messages were generated.)
2. Selected Configure PCMCIA by hand. No error messages. Got
typical PCMCIA beeps, don't know if those were the beeps that mean
"everything ID'd and configured" but I think so.
3. Configured network, it recognized my PCMCIA eth0 interface, asked
for confirmation that eth0 was PCMCIA, which I gave, then
asked about the configuration. I said no to DHCP/BOOTP and
configured a static address (and yes, I did that correctly, that
machine is happily running with that configuration right now).
4. Tried to install base system from /dev/hda1 (Win 98). That
partition was not offered in the install from partition menu. It
still seems to exist, fortunately.
5. Tried to install base system from network, tried one URL (I didn't
intend to wait around for 45-60 minutes for base2_2.tar.gz to
download from http.us.debian.org, so I tried something more local)
which didn't resolve. Tried another, this time the install hung
on "Install Debian GNU/Linux" with the Debian version of the BSOD.
Cut over to VC#2. eth0 apparently spontaneously combusted,
ifconfig doesn't find it, lsmod shows no 3c589_cs module either.
modprobe that, it appears in lsmod, but ifconfig eth0 gives up
with "no such interface."
I give up too.
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