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Re: Discovering DHCP hostname during original system installation

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On 05/31/2022 11:13 AM, David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 31 May 2022 at 08:13:57 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
>> I'm using firmware-11.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso to install Debian onto a
>> Lenovo T510 [Thinkpad].
> 
> ✓
> 
>> I know the netinstaller works on this laptop as I have done a
>> successful install when within range of of local library's wifi and
>> the installer is successfully detecting multiple local wifi sources.
> 
> Which netinstaller?

The one *STATED* in the first sentence!

> In the next paragraph, you use the term "standard
> netinstaller". Does this mean one without firmware?

Of course!

> 
>> I am doing a fresh install from home using an Alcatel Linkzone to
>> connect to my T-mobile account. I have had no problems doing this with
>> standard netinstallers.
> 
> ? That seems to be a new interpretation of the thread:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/10/msg00571.html

 From reading https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/10/msg00603.html 
in that thread, I don't think so. That thread referred ti a standard 
[i.e. free] netinst iso. This case is using the non-free firmware. I 
will have to carefully read the entire thread to see if it has point(s) 
in common.


> 
> What's unsaid here is /how/ you use your Alcatel Linkzone to connect.

As I use it daily - it effectively reacts as a traditional modem [the 
wifi aspect disabled].


> 
>> After an install over library wifi the system had no problem
>> connecting to the internet via the Linkzone.
> /
> So what's your question? And if it's meant to be the Subject line,
> I don't see any relationship with the rest of the post.

My entire problem is in the context of running the installer.


> 
> My question is why are you trying to install it again?

'Cause I want a very different OS configuration. This Thinkpad is a 
test-bed machine.

> And if your
> problem, whatever it is, is to do with the firmware version (I can't
> see why extra packages would trip anything up), why do you need it:
> you've already got all those packages at home anyway.
> 

HUH? ?? ???


> Cheers,
> David.
> 
> 
> 

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Discovering DHCP hostname during original system installation Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-05-31 15:20 +0200
  Re: Discovering DHCP hostname during original system installation David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-05-31 18:20 +0200
    Re: Discovering DHCP hostname during original system installation Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-05-31 21:10 +0200
      Re: Discovering DHCP hostname during original system installation David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-06-01 06:30 +0200
        Re: Discovering DHCP hostname during original system installation Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-06-01 13:40 +0200
          Re: Discovering DHCP hostname during original system installation Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-06-01 21:20 +0200
          Re: Discovering DHCP hostname during original system installation David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-06-01 22:40 +0200
      Re: Discovering DHCP hostname during original system installation Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-06-01 15:20 +0200
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