Re: Discovering DHCP hostname during original system installation
On 05/31/2022 11:13 AM, David Wright wrote:
On Tue 31 May 2022 at 08:13:57 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm using firmware-11.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso to install Debian onto a
Lenovo T510 [Thinkpad].
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I know the netinstaller works on this laptop as I have done a
successful install when within range of of local library's wifi and
the installer is successfully detecting multiple local wifi sources.
Which netinstaller?
The one *STATED* in the first sentence!
In the next paragraph, you use the term "standard
netinstaller". Does this mean one without firmware?
Of course!
I am doing a fresh install from home using an Alcatel Linkzone to
connect to my T-mobile account. I have had no problems doing this with
standard netinstallers.
? That seems to be a new interpretation of the thread:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/10/msg00571.html
From reading https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/10/msg00603.html
in that thread, I don't think so. That thread referred ti a standard
[i.e. free] netinst iso. This case is using the non-free firmware. I
will have to carefully read the entire thread to see if it has point(s)
in common.
What's unsaid here is /how/ you use your Alcatel Linkzone to connect.
As I use it daily - it effectively reacts as a traditional modem [the
wifi aspect disabled].
After an install over library wifi the system had no problem
connecting to the internet via the Linkzone.
/
So what's your question? And if it's meant to be the Subject line,
I don't see any relationship with the rest of the post.
My entire problem is in the context of running the installer.
My question is why are you trying to install it again?
'Cause I want a very different OS configuration. This Thinkpad is a
test-bed machine.
And if your
problem, whatever it is, is to do with the firmware version (I can't
see why extra packages would trip anything up), why do you need it:
you've already got all those packages at home anyway.
HUH? ?? ???
Cheers,
David.
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