Re: Testing the new boot floppies
Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au> writes:
> Actually, it's not as bad as I first made out.
>
> Dbootstrap network setup prompts for hostname, it then looks for loaded
> NIC drivers and if it doesn't find any, throws up a problem box
>
> "no network interfaces found. if you have a network card pls abort network
> config & load the req'd module 1st. Do you want to abort network config?"
>
> saying no here just continues on with the install. Its at this point that
> the ppp option should be written to dbootstrap_settings. BTW, i think that
> dialogue should be reworded.
I just reworded it.
> OTOH, you're probably right, just ask the PPP question in base-config
> regardless of what happens in dbootstrap and everyones happy. Although it
> means an extra question for people who don't care about PPP.
>
> AFAIK, ppp is not used directly from within dbootstrap/install routine but
> only after 1st reboot.
Right. PPP is not supported for the installation of the kernel,
drivers, or base. Thus we have decided (duh!) that its best if this
is just handled by base-config. This makes dbootstrap simpler -- it
also accomodates Dale Scheetz, since he can configure the network
*and* configure PPP if he wants.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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