On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:03:32PM +0000, Tim Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 08 May 2007 00:31, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > I am the lorax, i speak for the trees... oh. sorry. ;) > > Linus Torvalds is really Dr. Seuss - ala "The Boys from Brazil" > - read on ... > > > > 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? > > Burned and booted ... here's what I saw when I started the install: > Debian tells me the following: > "Primary Network Interface: > eth0: firewire (IEEE 1394) ethernet device > eth1: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 4353 > " > Gadzooks! This differs from what the current kubuntu 7.04 installation > is telling me. Ubuntu tells me that my network interface is at > eth0 (from the systems-> menu) and somehow I got the impression > that this was the device picked up by lspci as > "03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device > 4353 (rev 14)" > anyway ... hmmm... well, I'd bet money that the above eth1 won't work, but maybe you'll be in luck with the eth0. > > > 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. > > I'm going to proceed with the installation process as per your instructions > and see what I find... that's the spirit! the only thing you have to lose are bits.... > Great input. Thanks to all. Let me see what I come up with. please let us know A
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