unable to install on machine with no nic

[puccaso]

Hello,

I am able to boot, however from the logs I can see that I'm getting an error "unable to normalise empty mac!"
I tried plugging in an iphone via usb hoping to hotspot, it sees the phone but not the network passthrough. also tries a usb network adapter, no juice.

can't we just have the system auto configure to a local address at boot if there is no nic?
can i modify something on the usb flash disk used to boot, to make this the case?

Any help would be great!

kindly,

puc.