whatever happened to the Alt+F2 installer shell?

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 11:25 +0100, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
>> I'm having some problems installing using current rawhide boot.iso
>> under VMware. It *seems like* there could be a regression in the
>> pcnet32 driver or something, because it looks like the NIC is found
>> but the network is down. 
> 
> It's not the network driver -- it's dhcp. Set the address manually and
> it should work OK.
> 

The problem is exactly the same on a physical box (e100 NIC).

BZ'ed as #221392

/Thomas