netinst images: What's the point?

[Richard Shaw]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Joseph L. Casale
<jcasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote:
>>I'm not sure what's wrong, I just know it never asks me to initialize
>>a network connection unless I specify "askmethod", then it does it in
>>the non-graphical part of the setup.
>
> I just pulled the x86 iso down (only had x64) and whipped up a vm in esxi
> w/ an emulated E1000 nic and it asked me to initialize the nic once I hit
> the gui before the package selection step.
>
> What kind of nic do you have? Maybe a bug wrt your hardware only?
>
> jlc

It's an EEEPC 701. Has well supported hardware in current kernels. It
of course uses the i386 version though... Although it shouldn't matter
I wonder if it has something to do with it being on a USB flash drive?

Richard