Re: Network install

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.medina@gmail.com):

> To connect to Internet, I use ppp and a pendrive as modem.  It seems that the
> minimal netinst doesn't install ppp, so I can't connect to Internet to fetch
> the remaining packages.  Am I missing something important, or should conclude
> that the network install is not for me?

Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> writes:

> Rodolfo Medina a écrit :
>> 
>> To connect to Internet, I use ppp and a pendrive as modem.
>
> I doubt so. A "pendrive" is not a modem, it is a storage device.

Sorry, it's something similar to a pendrive.


>> It seems that the minimal netinst doesn't install ppp
>
> It does. You may need to choose expert install in order to be able to
> select ppp extra packages.


In the expert mode, I select the two ppp packages, but even then the `pon'
command, which I use to connect, still remains `not found' by the system.

Thanks,

Rodolfo