Note: I'm using an ISO downloaded from http://debian.linux.org.tw/debian-unofficial/ so I'm not sure these are the "official" testing ISOs, but the site is listed as a mirror on the debian site (here: http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/#testing), so I assume they should be okay. The system I did the install on is a Gateway Solo 1450SE laptop. In it, it has a NIC that requires the eepro100 module. This module is indeed on the CD, but it does not show up in the installer portion where you choose modules (modconf, I assume), though it does show the eepro module (which does not work with this particular NIC). I'm assuming that either modconf is botching the listing, or that there is a reason eepro100 isn't selectable on install, but I thought I'd mention that it hampered my install. My solution, by the way, was to burn a new kernel source tarball onto a CD-R(W), compile a custom kernel, modprobe eepro100, bring the NIC up manually, grab pump, bring the NIC down manually, edit /etc/network/interfaces, and then bring it up with "ifup". It's not all that bad, but I could have saved a good 20-30 minutes just having it in the installer. Oh, and one last (OT to this email, but not this list) issue - the Solo didn't like the default boot parameters very much and worked much better with the "video=vga16:off" line suggested on one of the help screens at boot, though it was still readable. -- Daniel DiPaolo <ddipaolo@trinity.edu> GnuPG key ID: 0xB2F23FC2
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