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 ... > 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... Great input. Thanks to all. Let me see what I come up with. tj -- Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Palmer, Alaska, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
