Re: Boot process hangs at, it seems, network initialisation

[Daniel Harris <mail.dharris@googlemail.com>]

dont even try and install any gui stuff. (networking should get setup even with the most minimal setup.  Just do a very minimal install  test networking (ping) then do a dist upgrade to testing and then installl X stuff.

One thing, but if your networking was working during the install why did you install firmware-realtek.  I would try removing that.  Linux keeps networking stuff in so many different places now its difficult to know where the setup files are kept.

I never venture out of stable nowadays so my advice may be outdated.

HTH

dan

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 3:50 PM Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> wrote:

On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 14:57:47 +0000
Daniel Harris <mail.dharris@googlemail.com> wrote:

Hello Daniel,

>I would probably try a minimal debian stable (providing it works on your
>new hardware) install and if that works then do a dist upgrade to
>testing.

I'll keep it in mind, but a previous attempt at installing stable
wouldn't give a graphical login  - I found that my nVidia gfx card isn't
supported by stable's nvidia drivers.  To be fair, I didn't see any
network issues, but that might have been because I got dropped to a tty
before the boot process got that far.   I didn't test for networking
issues on the stable set up - I didn't get that far.

Thank you.  I'll hold off for a while yet.

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