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After making a backup from a hard disk ta a disk image using plain old ‘dd’, I was just looking into mounting it using the Linux loopback device.

If you ‘dd’ a single partition into an image file, then this is very straight forward. But if your image file contains multiple partition partitions including the partition table itself, then you need to take additional steps.
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As you came along I suppose you stubled accross the same issue as me, didn’t you?

As far as I’m concerned, I can only tell that this issue rises when netbooting Debian-Installer through PXE/TFTP in combination with a preseed.cfg file, while the latter one being downloaded from a HTTP web-server.
This bevahiour has been observed with Debian Lenny and older versions and can cause quiet some headache upon setup automation if not taken into account.
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It has been some time now since development on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD started, which aims at bringing together the FreeBSD kernel with a GNU userland.

There exists a similar implementation called Gentoo GNU/kFreeBSD, although I had no time yet to review it.
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After I had finally found a solution to my 13W3-VGA adapter issue the time is ready to install Debian onto the machine.
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Well, sometimes obvious things aren’t quiet as obvious as supposed.

After plugging in a dual Intel Pro 1000 into my Debian box and hooking it up to my ancient Cisco 1924 switch, I noticed this in the kernel logs:

Jul 31 09:10:35 localhost kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Half Duplex

I though it should be fairly easy set the interface speeds properly so the devices would actually talk to each other.
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