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
