FC3t2 NFS install hanging on DHCP config

[Robert P. J. Day]

   i'm trying to install FC3t2 on a dell latitude laptop -- hooked the 
laptop to a SMC EZ switch to which my main laptop is also connected, 
booted from a CD copy of boot.iso, everything worked fine until i got 
to the screen to "Configure TCP/IP", i selected DHCP, got the

   "Sending request for IP information for eth0..."

dialog box for several seconds, then that dialog box disappeared and i 
was back at the TCP/IP configure screen again -- no error diagnostic 
or anything.

   checking the other virtual consoles, i can see the loading of the 
network module "xirc2ps_cs", then "running dhcp for eth0", and several 
iterations of

   pump told us: No DHCP reply received

   fair enough, i'll look at how DHCP is configured here, but shouldn't 
i expect to at least get an error diagnostic box of some kind telling 
me what just happened without having to resort to checking the virtual 
consoles?

rday