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Re: another bug in sipb-installer

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Tue Jan 2 21:21:14 2001

Message-Id: <200101030221.VAA03719@hikari-no-ken.mit.edu>
To: Emin Martinian <emin@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jan 2001 21:15:23 EST."
             <200101030215.VAA20170@eecs-ath-32.mit.edu> 
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 21:21:10 -0500
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>


Though I don't know the reason for the former bug, this one is likely
because the pcmcia supporting install kernel doesn't have support for
desktop Ethernet cards (since it is for laptops).

tibbetts

On 1/2 you wrote:
> I tried installing sipb-athena using pcmcia support on a desktop
> machine since the non-pcmcia installer is broken (see previous bug
> report).  This installer does not give me the option of installing
> over the network.  The only install options are Local CD-ROM or Hard
> Drive.
> 
> -Emin Martinian
> emin@mit.edu
> 

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