no IP address

[John G. Heim]

All,

What would be a reason for a machine to not get an IP address when booting 
into an FAI install? I have a test machine that boots into linux and gets an 
IP address via DHCP. But when i boot into an FAI install via a CDROM, it 
drops into the initramfs shell and says it couldn't find a live file system. 
If I type 'ipconfig eth0', it shows that eth0 does not have an IP address.