On Jun 11, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote: > > 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? Yes, but the netboot image does not have to be netbooted, it can also be used like any other image. Or do you think that the monolithic image should be used instead? > 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. No, why? If I need to net-install over a DSL then I want to download the smallest image which will get me started, and then download only the packages which are actually needed when they are needed. -- ciao, | Marco | [6728 irDCq2nrRMQig]
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