Stuck

[mikem30]

I have been trying for two weeks to get Sarge installed on my system as a dual boot machine.

My system has a DHCP router connected to a DSL with several machines on it, including this one. All are configured as server assigned IP and DNS, and work correctly.

When I boot on the netinstall disk and it tries to find the network, it tells me that it can't find a dhcp server.

I let the install finish and tried to set it up with static IP, but that did not work either.

I read and tried everything I can find related to this issue, and nothing seems to change the symptom.

When I execute ifup eth0, the return is always NODHCPOFFERS received.

I have posted a couple of times on this forum, but no one seems to have any ideas on how to work on this problem.

So I am appealing agin, does anyone know how to troubleshoot this problem?

I'd be glad to try anything!

Thanks in advance!

mikem30

[deanlinkous]

try etch.....!

[mikem30]

You were right!
I downloaded etch, and it has no problems figuring out how to deal with my network.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I wonder why Sarge couldn't do it?

[deanlinkous]

Sarge probably expected you to know how to handle it. That has always been the debian way for the most part...

Or likely a buggy driver in sarge or something.