Re: Install Report II (The Revenge; bf 3.0.7 (beta); Acer Laptop; floppy/basedebs)
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:14:19PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Switched to VC2, noted that ifconfig -a listed eth0, so didn't setup
> any modules. Went to configure the network, tried DHCP, waited for a
> few minutes (which seems very dodgy) got told it had been successfully
> configured, switched to VC2, noted that eth0 didn't have an IP address.
> Fixed DHCP server, tried again. This time it took only a couple of seconds,
> and actually did work.
This is a bug in dbootstrap. It checks the return value of
dhclient to see if the network was successfully configured via
DHCP, but dhclient returns 0 even if configuration failed. We
need to use some other method to determine whether or not the
network configuration was successful.
Matt
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