> I noticed that the installation fails due to missing randomness.
> I can confirm that as cat /dev/random does not provide any output.
[...]
> I heard that there is a patch for 2.2.x kernels, wich deals with this
> topic , but i cannot find this patch anywere .
> Is there a similar patch for 2.4.x kernels?
Robert Love did a patch to let network devices contribute to the random
pool. Look at
ftp://www.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/netdev-random/
or
http://www.tech9.net/rml/linux/
Tim
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