Live CD with no NIC (Re: Live CD kernels)

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 05:47:50PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:02:38PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
> > under qemu -m256 --cdrom foo.iso -enable-sound
> > 
> > detected hardware
> > found CD
> > blah blah
> > didn't find network hardware!
> > 
> > <Insert menu here>
> > *down* *down* Enter preinstalled environment
> > 
> > DID NOT FIND NETWORK HARDWARE PLEASE CONFIGURE THE NETWORK!
> 
> This one?
> 
> _Description: No network interfaces detected
>  No network interfaces were found. The installation
>  system was unable to find a network device.
>  .
>  You may need to load a specific module for your network card, if you have
>  one. For this, go back to the network hardware detection step.
> 
> Colin, how shall we go about getting netcfg to continue gracefully if there
> is no network interface available?

Fixed in casper 0.42, by 'db_fset netcfg/no_interfaces seen true'.

> This should probably be the case for (CD) installation as well, no?

Maybe. It would be inappropriate for netboot, and I'd been trying to
avoid having to preseed anything in the default CD installation ...

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]