[Rule-list] no ping after slinky install v0.2.3

Michael Fratoni mfratoni at tuxfan.homeip.net
Thu May 9 00:18:05 EEST 2002


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On Wednesday 08 May 2002 11:29 am, hairylarry at deltaboogie.com wrote:

> I installed from the new images for v0.2.3. Everything seemed to go
> right. I entered host name, gateway, and root password. When I
> rebooted kudzu found my davicom nic and I configured it just like
> always. This time, however, I could not ping the network and I could
> not ping the internet.

Was the interface brought up? Can you provide the output of 'ifconfig 
eth0' ?

> I noticed the drive selection has been put in a loop. This is good.
> About half the time I would see [hda] and I would just hit enter
> instead of typing hda first. Now I just get a nice prompt and I
> continue the install.

I'd like to believe the scripts have gotten smarter and less complicated 
for the end user with each version. I'm probably just fooling myself. :)

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