[Cialug] Bypassing the Network on Boot

[David Champion]

It should time out eventually, may take 5 minutes or so.

Or, try plugging it into your network and see if that does the trick.

Re-installing most of the "easy" Linux distributions is pretty painless
these days, mostly just boot, click "Next" a few times and let it go.

-dc

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Todd Pierce <toddcpierce at gmail.com> wrote:

> Crew,
>
> Being on topic (for once) I'm running into an issue with a laptop with
> Ubuntu server installed.  The weird part, is that I set it up for a client
> and she ended up giving it to me now that she's done with it.
>
> However, it doesn't want to boot with no network plugged in.  It gets to
> the point where it's "configuring network devices" and it doesn't want to
> go any further.
>
> It doesn't have wireless capability.
>
> Is there a quick fix to be able to use it until I get around to
> re-installing linux?  (sorry, I'm not exactly a linux administrator... )
>
> Any ideas appreciated.
>
> -Todd
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