Re: Installing Woody via adsl
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 03:00:57PM -0500, 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.
>
While dman is right that ADSL is usually nothing special, in many cases
your ISP may require PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet). When I installed 'potato'
onto my firewall machine, the pppoe package was not part of the 'base'
distribution. I just made sure I had a copy of it available locally
*before* installing. At the time, I think I did the 'base' installation
from local media and as soon as I got into the dselect phase of the
installation, I installed pppoe and got it set up. From that point on,
I did the rest of the install from the net.
HTH
Steve Williams
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