problems installing Breezy from CD

[Kim Briggs]

On 12/27/05, Rick Berger <rberger at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> hi,
>
> I been trying to install Breezy off and on for the past week or so. I'm
> using pppoe with my ISP, but the installation CD doesn't seem to allow
> one to use it and there doesn't seem to be defaults for a stand along
> system. So I've been using a private IP with no gateway and DNS server
> IPs to try to get the system up. Once up I'll connect with pppoeconf.
> Well the system crashes when the base-installer is running
> ".../usr/lib/base-installer.d/40netcfg<6>eth0: link down".
>
> Suggestion?
>
Hi Rick,

I believe that you can install Ubuntu from an installation CD without
a network connection ("stand alone").  I hope this isn't too basic,
but did you just try a fresh install with nothing at all connected to
eth0?

HTH,
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