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Bug#520285: installation-reports: The squeeze netinst dosn't configure DHCP



Quoting Matt H (hayden760@gmail.com):
> I can reproduce this error on the testing iso for may 4th.
> 
> debian-testing-amd64-CD-1.iso
> <http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-CD-1.iso>
>           04-May-2009 09:44  645M
> 
> My NIC is an onboard nvidia card, on a p5n-d motherboard. I've tried
> installing by burning to a CD, and using a USB stick with the latest
> debian installer files.
> If I choose to manually configure the IP address I still get an error
> message saying that network configuration failed. Furthermore, if I
> countinue the install, I end up having no network connection when I
> log in once installation is finished.

In the original bug report, it was said that the IP was indeed setup
and thus the problem was apparently some timeout problem.

Could you retry and, when you get the DHCP failure message, swith to
console 2 and check whether the IP address is indeed assigned to your
NIC card or not?

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