Bug#606515: Preseed installation does not wait for network to be ready

2010-12-11 Thread Floris Bos
Hi, Attached a patch to netcfg that waits for the link to come up before proceeding. It times out after 10 seconds, so if link detection is broken for some reason it doesn't affect the install. -- Yours sincerely, Floris Bos diff -ur netcfg.orig/Makefile netcfg/Makefile ---

Bug#606515: Preseed installation does not wait for network to be ready

2010-12-09 Thread Floris Bos
Package: network-preseed Version: 1.41 We are experiencing problems automatically installing Debian Lenny on a number of dedicated servers using PXE and preseed. Our setup works correctly with some hardware configurations, while others give a Failed to retrieve the preconfiguration file error