Re: PPPoE and boot floppies
Well, as was said, I took this to the debian-boot list, and it was
resoundingly ignored. Maybe I don't understand the nature of that list.
Maybe I haven't made a big enough stink. Maybe I'm not asking the right
questions...
Lately I want to build my own pppoe client complete with all the libc6
stuff compiled right in, rather than having it be linked. And then
putting it in a floppy image that I can access from the woody boot
floppy ramdisk. Then I can connect and get everything else.
This is a hell of a work-around. Debian is suddenly a little less
flexible than it was...
Russell
PS On the bright side, I'm learning alot.
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>From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
>To: Debianppc <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
>Subject: Re: PPPoE and boot floppies
>Date: Mon, Jun 18, 2001, 18:44
>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 04:28:31PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
>> 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 ?
>
> your mirror must have all the packages debootstrap will want to
> download (you need to read debootstrap source to find that out), and
> it MUST have a complete, and correct Packages AND Release files. the
> mirror must live on a non-crippled filesystem (ext2, ufs, xfs,
> reiserfs... NOT hfs, msdos, NTFS...)
>
> since that kind of mirror is only possible if you already have a *nix
> box around, probably debian, your correct, you must have a net
> connection or you have to buy/get a CD.
>
> please take this and other boot-floppy/debootstrap discussions to
> debian-boot.
>
> --
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
>
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