problems installing Breezy from CD

[Rick Berger]

On Tue, 2005-27-12 at 22:37 -0500, Kim Briggs wrote:
> 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?
> 

Kim,

I've been doing that on the two or three tries I did today. What did you
use for your network settings, gateway and dns, or did you skip the
network install stage? I'll pick up your reply when get home tomorrow.

Rick