Fred K Ollinger on Fri, 19 Jul 2002 12:27:02 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] net install on old pentium trouble


> > 1) Setup the external network card as DHCP or static depending on your
> > ISP's instruction.
> Yes - tried both DHCP as well as static.  When I'm home, I could post the
> specific errors, but DHCP tries polling for a configuration, but doesn't
> get a response.  When I set as static, I time out attempting to get to the
> debian servers.

What cd are you using? What servers have you tried?

> PING www.billjonas.com has been attempted, and get could not resolve name
> so I try to ping the ip address of the gateway and get no response.  since
> the install disks for woody don't include a browser, I use wget to my
> gateway's webserver and get a nice seg fault, so that was no help
> either...

This means that your route is wrong. I wonder if you could use
traceroute.

Fred


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