Re: Installing Woody via adsl
Hi,
I have a cable connection which uses DHCP and it has caused me several
problems in the past. I always had to resort to downloading a complete
ISO of an installation cd, install and update after having set up
networking.
This might not be necessary anymore.
Maybe the following extract from the most recent Debian Weekly News will
help. You can install a minimal system from the cdrom, configure adsl
and continue the installation via your ADSL connection.
<<
Net Installation for Woody. Ian Eure developed some special [1]CD
images for a woody network installation for i386 and powerpc. The
images don't contain full 650MB of packages (which you don't even use
entirely), but contain a basic Debian system, which is bootable. Once
the image is booted it will guide the user through the Debian
installation procedure until he has reached the step where he has to
set up APT. From that step the installation will continue using the
network as expected. Use these images at your own risk. If you send
Ian a polite mail at ieure@debian.org, he will try to help with any
problems you might have.
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References
1. http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/
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Hope it helps,
Coen De Roover
On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 21:00, dman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 02:05:46PM +0100, Antonio wrote:
> | Is there a way to net-install Woody (or sid) via ADSL? I don't have a direct
> | ethernet connection, but installing via ADSL would solve me a couple of
> | problems.
>
> Yes. ADLS is nothing special as far as software goes. You have an
> ethernet card that plugs into an ethernet<->atm<->dsl bridge (DSL is
> the physical layer for the ATM[1] network). As far as debian is
> concerned you have a network. As far as the kernel is concerned you
> have an ethernet card. The only potential hiccup is that most DSL
> providers requir you to use DHCP to obtain an IP address. I don't
> know if the installer can do this or not.
>
> -D
>
> [1] Asynchronous Transfer Mode, not Automated Teller Machine
>
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