Re: PPPoE and boot floppies
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 05:47:25AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:29:19AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote:
> > Okay, so what am I going to do to get a network install going? Someone
> > on another list mentioned that there is a module for pppoe, but my
> > understanding of this is that it's for the 2.4 kernel. If there is no
> > solution to the pppoe problem I've got, I will say "failure" to the
> > current incarnation of woody boot-floppies (not that it amounts to
> > much). I'm not going to be able to change DSL providers for the near
> > future, so that isn't an option. I also spoke to them about the pppoe
> > requirement, but I'm not going to run out and buy a router to get around
> > this, either.
>
> s/boot-floppies/debootstrap/g
>
> > Another question: why do the boot-floppies have to be 1.44 MB? If they
> > aren't tied to the physical medium any more, there really isn't a limit
> > as to how big they should be, right?
>
> because some archetectures still use floppies, such as oldworld
> powermac and i386. huge ramdisks cause other problems anyway, the
> larger the ramdisk the more memory it takes up which is unavailable
> for processes, this is a problem on low memory machines.
>
> > With debootstrap, is it possible that I could create a "mirror" or
> > simple archive of all the stuff debootstrap is going to d/l before I
> > boot into the b-f? That way I can get a mostly functioning system from a
> > local drive, install my pppoe software, get connected to the net, then
> > d/l everything else...
>
> nope.
huh ???
Are you saying that it is no more possible to do installs without a net
connection, or to do very primitivie/simple installs from a local (maybe
partial) mirror ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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