Bug#219525: marked as done (installation-reports: installation report: "configure the network" failed)
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From: Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk>
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Subject: installation-reports: installation report: "configure the network" failed
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Package: installation-reports
Version: N/A; reported 2003-11-07
Severity: normal
I downloaded the network install ISO from
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/daily/
dated Nov 6. I am installing on an dual PIII box (i.e. SMP) with
aic7xxx SCSI and two via-rhine ethernet cards. This box currently
runs Debian/stable.
1. Booted using linux DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium.
2. Chose UK English.
3. Surprised to be asked to select a USB keyboard when I don't have one.
4. Chose AT keyboard.
5. Appeared to detect detect CD.
6. Appeared to load installer components.
7. "Detect network" appeared to detect SCSI and ethernet and load
kernel modules.
5. When attempting to "Configure the network" I got what appeared to
be an error, a red-screen and white rectangle, but no error message
just a "Feel free to retry" message.
6. Started a shell. lsmod showed the via-rhine ethernet module loaded
but ifconfig shows no interfaces.
7. Returned to main menu. Choosing "Save logs" didn't write anything
to floppy, just returned to the main menu.
8. Back to a shell and examined /var/log/syslog. I saw the via-rhine
ethernet module being loaded and my two ethernet cards being detected.
I saw failed to load errors for ide-mod, ide-probe-mod and ide-floppy,
which probably explains why I could not write the logs to a floppy.
9. Rebooted and switched over my ethernet connections so that the DHCP
server was on the other network card, it still failed at "Configure
the network".
10. Went on to mount a partition, install the base system, and install
the kernel. I chose not to install LILO (I did not want it making
changes to my existing setup) and rebooted into my existing
Debian/stable installation. From there I mounted the new installation,
tweaked lilo.conf, ran lilo, and rebooted into Sarge.
11. Unable to login. Rebooted to debian/stable, mounted new installation,
tweaked pam.d/common-auth to add "nullok" and rebooted into Sarge.
There is still no network.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian2 2.4.22 #1 SMP Mon Aug 25 20:42:25 BST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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Hi
thank you for testing debian-installer. I reassign several of the errors
you reported to the affected packages. I'm now closing this installation
report.
gaudenz
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