On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:27:03AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > On Tuesday 03 July 2001 19:41, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Regarding this whole PPPoE thing, can someone summarize to me or to > > the todo file our approach, insofar as any changes dbootstrap/b-f > > would have to make? > Well, in potato, because there is a base-root system installed already, I can > just change to a different console and mount a partition (say, macos) and > dpkg -i pppoe.deb. With woody, Well, with woody, as of 3.0.7, pppoe is included in the base system, so you have to do the usual mounted/floppy install to get to the base system, then you can just configure pppoe yourself, and continue on. Mounted/floppy installs are only kinda supported at the moment --- you have to switch to VC2 and do a little hacking with b-f's 3.0.7, but there'll be UI support for it soon. (Actually there might be already, I'm not quite sure) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, cannot perceive, or don't care about, is too much.'' -- John S. Novak, III (The Humblest Man on the Net)
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