Bug#343635: Hangs in DHCP setup

[Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>]

On Friday 16 December 2005 19:09, Jim Ivans wrote:
> Debian-installer-version: <Fill in date and from where you got the
> image> 
> downloaded from mirror in debian main site

Please next time give us the full URL. We have over 500 different images 
in total...

>   Comments/Problems: All went well till the window to setup DHCP,
>  I have tried 3 different boot cd's with the same error at the same
> place.. DHCP status indicator in install or setup window gets up to 6%
> very quickly and stops.

Have you tried configuring the network interface statically?
Boot with 'linux netcfg/disable_dhcp=true'.

DHCP configuration should not hang, but at this stage static configuration 
is probably easier that trying to debug where DHCP goes wrong.

> I am new to Linux but am an 
> old timer (before Windows) using dos and cpm..(you may not have heard
> of cpm, 

Yes, I've heard of it and even worked on it... ITT 3030 system.

Cheers,
FJP