Joey Hess wrote:
I want to burn as few CDs as possible which is why I want to install over the internet using the installer. I can't even do a netboot. And I'm installing from the netinst.iso image not the netboot.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.
The prefered way to install Debian over the network using PPP over ethernet would be something like this: After the ethernet card has been detected and configured (Has a driver loaded for it) then you would have the option to configure it to connect to the internet via PPPoE using something like pppoeconf. Once the network is configured you can select http or ftp as the method of installation and it would actually work! On some Redhat based distros they call it ADSL. Maybe you could have a menu where you can choose how to connect to the internet? Like DHCP, PPPoE/ADSL, PPP, BootP, etc.
[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.