Eva Myers wrote:
> I am having difficulty installing SL4.4 on a new machine.  The
> relevant hardware details are:
> 
> Motherboard + processor: Intel D965SSCK Core 2 Duo 6300 2MB cache
> Hard disk: 160GB - ST3160811AS -  7200rpm Serial ATA Seagate
> Network card: Intel PCI 10/100/1000MB Ethernet card (the motherboard
>     also has onboard networking)
> 
> When I boot from the boot CD and press Return at the boot prompt, the
> install hangs at
> 
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
> 
> Searching the archives suggested typing "linux all-generic-ide
> pci=nommconf" at the boot prompt, though I am not clear what these
> options mean.  This got past the freeze, but it seems that there is
> also some kind of trouble with networking.  If the onboard network
> socket is connected up, networking does not appear to work at all (the
> machine is not pingable).  If the network card is connected up, the
> machine is pingable but won't get past the "FTP Setup" screen in the
> install process.  Using the http install option instead gave an error
> message: "Unable to retrieve... stage2.img".
> 

90% of the time, when I have users that get this problem it is because 
of the network setup.  Not the driver, but the IP address, gateway, or 
netmask.
If you have a static IP address, double check all the settings.
If you have dhcp, check to make sure that you really are getting a dhcp 
address, or even that you are on a network that does dhcp.
If you were here at Fermilab, I would tell you that you probrubly are in 
our DHCP jail, and that you have to register before you can connect.  I 
don't know if your enviroment is the same where you are, but DHCP jails 
are quite common.

Troy
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