(Reassiging to base-config.) Tomas Pospisek wrote: > after having the base system installed and rebooted the system will continue with >installing the > "rest" of debian. I did this through a ppp-style install. Unfortunately the system >was unable to > detect that a ppp connection went down. I had to restart it manually through "pon". >If this > happens to a newby s/he will sweat blood to find out a) what went wrong and b) how >to get the > ppp connection back on. So I suggest either to give the system a means to find out >whether the > line's still up or to give the user a possibility to redial. > > I'm tagging this report as normal not as wishlist, since I think that the install >process should > be as bullet proof as possible and since I think that connection loss while in ppp >is not such an > uncommon thing.
I agree, and more robust ppp handling has been on base-config's TODO list for a while already. Unfortunatly it is probably too late to fix this for woody. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
