Bug#248905: installation report
Martin Michlmayr wrote:
* Craig Morris <craig@redtree.com> [2004-05-13 13:29]:
On the first I took the preselected Don't touch keymap option and this
resulted in apt installation of modules failing. Yes the doc say you
probably should select a keymap, but leaves the impression that doing
nothing would be fine if you want to stick with what you designated
earlier. In any event making this mistake would be a show stopper for a
newbie.
Can you show what error messages you got exactly and which packages
failed to install? Selecting "Don't touch keymap" should certainly
work.
Yes, I should have documented it and no I didn't. :-( As I recall there
were numerous messages about ReadLine and I believe the module that
turfed apt-get was console-tools. Of course I was just in a rush to get
things done - sorry.
To my surprise on the second install the DHCP scan appeared to work and
I was not asked for additional information. However when it came time
Do you have any idea why DHCP worked when you don't have an DHCP
server running on the network? Or did it only appear to work? Did
you check with ifconfig whether you had a (wrong) address or none at
all? Can you reproduce this problem?
I suspect that it did get a response from the cable provider's DHCP (I
have never setup a DHCP server, so I am a bit fuzzy on the details). It
did configure resolv.conf correctly for a normal residential account and
I guess interfaces as well - it had an eth0 with dhcp. When it
apparently succeeded on the dhcp request I assumed that the cable
company had indeed just given out another dynamic address and that I
would just have to go in later and change it to a static, but apparently
it would not actually provide an address when it requested it at the apt
stage. Perhaps the upstream provider's DHCP is not configured quite
correctly for my situation.
I did do ifconfig and as I recall eth0 was down.
I suppose I might be able to reproduce it, but I am reluctant to do so
on this box just now. I may be able to try it on a very old woody
system, but unfortunately that would be a few days away. If there is
something relatively nondestructive I can test, I would be glad to.
--
Craig Morris - craig@redtree.com
Fernie, BC, Canada
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