Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails

[Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@soziologie.ch>]

Am Die, den 23.12.2003 schrieb Martin Michlmayr um 09:10:
> * Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de> [2003-12-22 18:10]:
> > Found it. But I could not pass the DHCP entry in the main menu, even
> > though I manually called udhcpc, and ifconfig showed me that I've
Manually running udhcpc does not work, because the netcfg-dhcp component
of debian-installer is still marked as failed and there was no component
who successfully provided configured-network.

> 
> I think if you configure a static IP address, the DHCP menu will stop
> complaining.  At least that's what I did when pump failed and then I
> could continue.  Alternatively, remove /sbin/pump before DHCP is
> called, and it will use the other DHCP client and just work.

This is now fixed in CVS. udhcp is now prefered to pump.

Gaudenz