Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
What I can't understand is, why was that file empty in the first place. As I said in an earlier mail, the debian install had barfed at not finding a network interface. I had to go into expert install and skip that step. Could this be flaky hardware ?
Was it the Ali network card? I faced a problem installing Debian 5 on a client's 3 machines that used the same hardware. The funny part was that Lenny live CD brought the card up but the Lenny installation DVD did not detect it while installation.