Running the graphical installer on my ASUS w3v laptop. After setting the configuration options and clicking "install" nothing happens. Command-line installer has the same problem. The following work-around applies: unload sk98lin module load skge module run net-setup This allows the network adapter to be detected properly and function. The source of the problem here seems to be that the installer makes some kind of DHCP request as one of its first calls, and this request never seems to time out, preventing the rest of the install process from commencing. Fairly simple to work around but requires some understanding of linux innards. I'm not sure of the pros/cons b/w sk98lin and skge but perhaps skge should be loaded as default instead for "03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)". Another possibility is skipping the dhcp request if no network device is detected or if GRP install is selected? Thanks for your time.
When this "hang" is triggered, can you kill the installer and post the /tmp/clientconfiguration.xml to this bug?
I've fixed it in CVS where you'll actually get an error in the log when DHCP times out. What was happening is that the dhcpcd command would fail, the function would raise an exception, and then the secondary thread for the installer would die off silently because the exception wasn't caught. The install will still fail, but at least is will be a bit more noisy this time. The "fix" for this problem is to check the 'My network is already setup and running' checkbox. This will cause the installer to completely ignore the pre-install networking setup stuff.
Moving to Release Media/Installer.
