Bug#127678: boot-floppies: unable to detect when ppp-connection went down
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 3.0.18-2001-12-21
Severity: normal
after having the base system installed and rebooted the system will continue with installing the
"rest" of debian. I did this through a ppp-style install. Unfortunately the system was unable to
detect that a ppp connection went down. I had to restart it manually through "pon". If this
happens to a newby s/he will sweat blood to find out a) what went wrong and b) how to get the
ppp connection back on. So I suggest either to give the system a means to find out whether the
line's still up or to give the user a possibility to redial.
I'm tagging this report as normal not as wishlist, since I think that the install process should
be as bullet proof as possible and since I think that connection loss while in ppp is not such an
uncommon thing.
*t
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux maladers 2.2.20 #1 Sun Nov 4 15:44:23 EST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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