-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Philippe Cloutier wrote: > Hi Eddy,
Hello Philippe, > I've tested your (updated) iso on 2 of my 3 computers. It worked great, > I'm curious to know which tricks you use to produce such an image, and > can't wait to see regular testing install media behave similarly :) Well, regular recipe, some sugar, some spice and something nice ;-) I have some good news, these tests were necessary to be able to make the changes I made a part of the official ppp-udeb module. So, it looks like Etch might have support for installs over PPPoE. >> * in D-I environment >> o bad/good login should be detected (good logins are silent) >> > Check. > >> o transitory problems when trying to do the initial >> connection (cable unplugged or PPPoE server down) should >> be detected >> > Didn't test enough. Well, this is double checking, I made some testing myself about this, but I would have preferred double checking with someone else. You know, "works for me" is not good enough. >> * in the installed system: >> o target system boots fine with the PPPoE connection set up >> correctly >> > Check. Excellent. >> o hosts file and host name are set correctly >> > host names were fine. I'm not familiar with hosts file, but it seemed OK. # cat /etc/hosts # hostname # hostname -f These would be enough to get that info. >> o permissions are set correctly on the network configuration >> files and the ppp configuration files (an output of "ls >> -lR /etc/ppp" in the target would be appreciated) >> > This is the ls -lR /etc/ppp/ output from one machine: > > /etc/ppp: > total 64 > -rw------- 1 root root 54 2007-01-24 15:00 chap-secrets > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1754 2006-12-19 07:23 ip-down > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-01-24 15:00 ip-down.d > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1892 2006-12-19 07:23 ip-up > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-01-24 20:46 ip-up.d > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 784 2006-12-19 07:23 ipv6-down > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-12-19 07:23 ipv6-down.d > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 922 2006-12-19 07:23 ipv6-up > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-12-19 07:23 ipv6-up.d > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13208 2006-12-19 07:23 options > -rw------- 1 root root 54 2007-01-24 15:00 pap-secrets > drwxr-s--- 2 root dip 4096 2007-01-24 15:00 peers > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52 2007-01-25 14:02 resolv.conf > > /etc/ppp/ip-down.d: > total 4 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 559 2006-12-19 07:23 0000usepeerdns > > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d: > total 8 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 891 2006-12-19 07:23 0000usepeerdns > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 295 2005-08-14 10:03 exim4 > > /etc/ppp/ipv6-down.d: > total 0 > > /etc/ppp/ipv6-up.d: > total 0 > > /etc/ppp/peers: > total 4 > -rw-r----- 1 root dip 1378 2007-01-24 15:00 provider > >> o loopback interface is configured correctly >> > Check. This seems is to be ok. If anyone spots anything wrong, please speak up now. > Thank you! No, THANK YOU! Your help is mostly appreciated. - -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFuTMsY8Chqv3NRNoRAguKAKDAr8udtOQ0JY+bCmzF3UYE3h5T4ACeMQTX 4baR7zJHejZlswBhSUAARaU= =rGqY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
