Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #288522 Ok, I booted the installer with "linux26." After the "network hardware detection" in stage 1, I am presented with the option to choose my main network interface from only:
eth0: 3com card eth1: wireless ethernet Obviously, firewire is not included here. Also, doing a dmesg yields no indication that the firewire hardware had been started. I didn't think about doing an lsmod at the time, but I assume that the ieee1394, ohci1394, and eth1394 kernel modules were not loaded. Perhaps all that is needed would be to load these modules during the "network hardware detection" step? Then the stage 1 would be in the same state as stage 2 in terms of available network interfaces. In terms of robustness, it may be a good idea to think about any other potential network interfaces that will be available by default during stage 2 that should also be enabled during network hardware detection in stage 1. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)