On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:56:50PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:48:46PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:24:28PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:18:56PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > That's not strictly true. Etch doesn't contain a kernel recent enough to > > > > use that hardware, but that doesn't prevent anyone from installing > > > > etch without ethernet and compile a more recent kernel later on. > > > > > > That's just a pain though. > > > > Any chance he could just use a lenny kernel? > > Probably, after you get the system installed. Doing a net install > without a network port is a pain. > > One could install an old spare network card to do the install, then > upgrade the kernel and then use the built in network I suppose.
Yeah. That's what I did with my new machine a year or two ago. Then I waited about four months for X to catch up. But the machine's primary use was as an NFS server, and that worked just fine. When the kernel caught up to my on-board ethernet, suddenly I had no network connectivity because it had renumbered my eth's. Pulling out the spare network card did the trick. -- hendrik -- hendrik > > -- > Len Sorensen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]