Well, as was said, I took this to the debian-boot list, and it was resoundingly ignored. Maybe I don't understand the nature of that list. Maybe I haven't made a big enough stink. Maybe I'm not asking the right questions...
Lately I want to build my own pppoe client complete with all the libc6 stuff compiled right in, rather than having it be linked. And then putting it in a floppy image that I can access from the woody boot floppy ramdisk. Then I can connect and get everything else. This is a hell of a work-around. Debian is suddenly a little less flexible than it was... Russell PS On the bright side, I'm learning alot. ____________________________________________________ Without sharing, there would be no Internet Without the Internet, there would be no sharing Share your code, share your source -- Let's build something as great as the Internet! ---------- >From: Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Debianppc <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org> >Subject: Re: PPPoE and boot floppies >Date: Mon, Jun 18, 2001, 18:44 > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 04:28:31PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: >> huh ??? >> >> Are you saying that it is no more possible to do installs without a net >> connection, or to do very primitivie/simple installs from a local (maybe >> partial) mirror ? > > your mirror must have all the packages debootstrap will want to > download (you need to read debootstrap source to find that out), and > it MUST have a complete, and correct Packages AND Release files. the > mirror must live on a non-crippled filesystem (ext2, ufs, xfs, > reiserfs... NOT hfs, msdos, NTFS...) > > since that kind of mirror is only possible if you already have a *nix > box around, probably debian, your correct, you must have a net > connection or you have to buy/get a CD. > > please take this and other boot-floppy/debootstrap discussions to > debian-boot. > > -- > Ethan Benson > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ >
