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- Subject: Installation via PPPoE uneasy
- From: "Grzegorz B. Prokopski" <gadek@debian.org>
- Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 00:32:27 -0400
- Message-id: <1096950747.26182.78.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 03 Oct 2004 uname -a: Linux XXXX 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Mon Sep 13 23:29:55 EDT 2004 i586 GNU/Linux (I installed with 2.4.x kernel, then switched to 2.6 after instalation) Date: 03 Oct 2004 Method: Network install from business card image (the >100MB one). Machine: Standard, old PC. Processor: AMD k6-2 500MHz Memory: 256MB Root Device: IDE Root Size/partition table: n Output of lspci and lspci -n: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 36 289138+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 37 1247 9727357+ 8e Linux LVM Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [E] Config network: [E] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [O] Install boot loader: [O] Reboot: [O] Comments/Problems: 1. It only detected one of my network cards, with pcnet32 module. The second one, smc_ultra (an ISA card) wasn't detected. After the installation I had to add smc-ultra to /etc/modules. 2. Installer tried to use DHCP to configure network. It failed because I use ADSL/PPPoE. It was far from obvious that I should choose "do not configure network at this time" in my case (I was honestly wondering what should I do). I guess many people have PPPoE connections and at least some _hint_ would be nice. 3. After the reboot I had an option to "Use PPP to install system". I tried to use it, but it only allowed me to use PPP, not PPPoE. Apparently it was not possible at all to install with PPPoE. Having the root password already set up I switched to second console where I found out that pppoe and pppoeconfig are already installed. Why using them is not an available option during installation? But the problems were not over yet. pppoeconfig utility failed to communicate with "concentrator" and was unable to configure the connection. This pretty much dumped me into editing /etc/ppp files. Forunatelly I had my notes where to put what to make it work and in 5 minutes I had my connection up and running. I would not expect a regular user to do such things simply to get his PPPoE connection (Actually it's ADSL or DSL from his POV) to work. Could PPPeE installation be made somewhat more straightforward? Thansk guys for terrific installer anyway. *I* personally do not complain at all, but a somewhat less experienced user would not be able to use his Debian at all. How would he "call" for help w/o network connectivity? ;-) Cheers, Grzegorz B. Prokopski -- Grzegorz B. Prokopski <gadek@debian.org> Debian http://www.debian.org - The Free Operating System SableVM - LGPL'ed Free Java Virtual Machine - http://sablevm.org/
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- To: 274994-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#274994: Installation via PPPoE uneasy
- From: Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:51:33 +0200
- Message-id: <20080727085133.GA9455@qamar>
- Mail-followup-to: 274994-done@bugs.debian.org
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On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:32:27AM -0400, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: > 3. After the reboot I had an option to "Use PPP to install system". > I tried to use it, but it only allowed me to use PPP, not PPPoE. > Apparently it was not possible at all to install with PPPoE. It is actually possible since Etch using the ppp-udeb module of the debian-installer. As documented in the installation manual, specifying "module=ppp-udeb" on the command-line allow to make a Debian installation using PPPoE. Cheers, -- Jérémy Bobbio .''`. lunar@debian.org : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism `. `'` `-Attachment: signature.asc
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