Sounds 8 Install notes

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 02:55:25AM -0400, Dave Miller wrote:
> When detecting network settings, it again choked because my wireless has 
> WEP enabled.  It asked me for an ESSID, but never asked me for the WEP 
> key, so it had no way to connect.
> 
> After manually entering network settings, there was a LONG pause with 
> nothing but a blue screen before it prompted me for a hostname.  I'm 
> assuming it was probably trying to reverse-dns the IP I gave it to find 
> out if it already had a name, but since it never asked for a WEP key, 
> the DNS didn't work.   Bug 1113 filed.

Fixed in netcfg 1.01ubuntu7. It would be preferable to see if networking
just works and otherwise ask, but there's no code for this yet; in the
meantime I think this question is necessary, given the awkwardness of
the failure case.

> Another long pause with nothing on the screen after writing the ext3 
> partition before it starts checking the swap space on the swap partition.

Not sure what it's doing there. partman is not a terribly fast bunny
sometimes.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]