Rebooting, I tried the 2.4 installer (standard mode). Generally this
works fine with the following exception. During the first pass of the
installer the ethernet card is detected (3c575) and an entry is made in
/etc/network/interfaces. The first phase of the install completes
successfully, and the machine reboots. Get to the point of installing
software. Choose http method, choose a mirror, but network is down.
Only lo is up. Change to F2 and as root issue /etc/init.d/networking
restart
eth0 is now up and install continues
Reboot and network is down
This is a common problem on many laptop installations. I find that I
often must make a local entry in /etc/init.d/ and a "late" link in rc2.d
to restart the networking.
The problem is the networking tries to come up before pcmcia, and so
fails. I suppose you could automatically restart the network if
choosing a network option for installing packages, or alternatively, you
could add a screen upon failure of dselect to optionally restart the
network.