On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 04:23:57PM +0000, Tim Johnson wrote: > On Monday 07 May 2007 23:54, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:46:24PM +0000, Tim Johnson wrote: > > > On Monday 07 May 2007 23:18, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > not promising. so repost your question with specific information on > > > > that NIC, like model # etc and see what happens. > > > > > > I've got other NICs here. I'll try another. My previous experience > > > installing the ubuntu suggest that there seems to be a conflict > > > between a second card (eth1) and the current onboard nic, so I'll have to > > > get a hardware person (which I'm not) to help me resolve that. > > > > most NIC's "just work" in my experience. > > :-) Speaking for Debian are you? I am the lorax, i speak for the trees... oh. sorry. ;) > > I just downloaded netinst.iso. Later, I will burn it > and try booting with it. Do I understand that this CD will have > the ability to probe eth0 and eth1 (if necessary) and give me > feedback before proceeding with the install? It does check for the presence of a network connection, but I don't remember at which point in the install it does that. You could always switch to a VT from the installer (usual alt-f2, etc) to confirm the network is working before proceeding. You can also back out of the instlaler's "wizard" sort of interface and it puts you at a menu that lets you select which steps to perform and thus you could skip up to the networking part and confirm it sees a repository etc. A
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