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Bug#253814: please add ppp-udeb and ppp-modules to the netboot image



Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jun 11, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > Is there an agreement that the netboot image is a correct image for
> > pppoe installs? That seems rather out of its scope to me.
> I tought we had one the last time we discussed this...
> PPPoE support needs everything available in the netboot image (i.e. the
> drivers for ethernet cards) and nothing else than ppp-udeb and the ppp
> kernel modules package[1], so it looks quite appropriate to me.
 
If you've netbooted a machine, then you must have another machine on the
local network, so it would be unlikely that you'd need to use the
installed system directly with a modem to get out to the internet. More
likely your tftp server is also a router, or something, no?

Also, a user who wants to install with a bare ppp connection seems more
likely to want to download some kind of CD image than a netboot thing.

> [1] BTW, can you check if it has been removed from images which do not
> also have ppp-udeb please? IIRC some had only the first package, which
> is useless by itself.

Both udebs are on the CDs, and on no other d-i images.

-- 
see shy jo

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