I have once tried to install RedHat via the network on a machine with
a PnP NIC. That was a machine which even had a PnP BIOS, so it's
supposed to initialize the NIC, right? After about an hour of trying
(including copying the installation program from the boot floppy to HD
and booting from that - it coredumps) - I gave up and recommended
using Debian. That at least has a boot disk from which you can install
a minimum system including isapnptools on HD and proceed there, and
also use it as a working rescue disk.
It is important to have PNP support to the extent that an ordinary
user can get it to work on first install, no matter whether in kernel
or user space, no matter whether it looks nice or not.
olaf
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