Re: PPPoE and boot floppies

2001-06-19 Thread Russell Hires
- >From: Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Debianppc >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

Re: PPPoE and boot floppies

2001-06-18 Thread Ethan Benson
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

Re: PPPoE and boot floppies

2001-06-18 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 05:47:25AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:29:19AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > > Okay, so what am I going to do to get a network install going? Someone > > on another list mentioned that there is a module for pppoe, but my > > understanding of this

Re: PPPoE and boot floppies

2001-06-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:29:19AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > Okay, so what am I going to do to get a network install going? Someone > on another list mentioned that there is a module for pppoe, but my > understanding of this is that it's for the 2.4 kernel. If there is no > solution to the ppp

Re: PPPoE and boot floppies

2001-06-18 Thread Russell Hires
ocal drive) isn't going to be easy. Russell --- I don't care if you're going nowhere, Just take good care of the world. -- Depeche Mode ------ >From: Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: PPPoE and

Re: PPPoE and boot floppies

2001-06-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:12:58AM +0300, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > Do we still use the base .tar.gz of the bare bones system? I remember > fetching that into my macos partition and doing the base install using it - > it contains dpkg and a functional base system so you should be able to > install

Re: PPPoE and boot floppies

2001-06-18 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > you need everything not in /usr/share/doc for every package it depends > > on. and probably a real libc. will that fit on the root disk? no. > > Do we still use the base .tar.gz of the bare bones system? I remember > fetching that into my macos partition and doing the base install using it -

Re: PPPoE and boot floppies

2001-06-18 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 02:57:17PM -0800, thus said Ethan Benson: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 12:43:24PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > > > > So, what I want to do is take the binary that was created in my fully > > installed system, pack it up using tar, and then transport it to my > > new-install s

Re: PPPoE and boot floppies

2001-06-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 12:43:24PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > > So, what I want to do is take the binary that was created in my fully > installed system, pack it up using tar, and then transport it to my > new-install system, so I can be in the ramdisk, and then untar it so > that it works, and

PPPoE and boot floppies

2001-06-17 Thread Russell Hires
Okay, I'm installing my Debian Woody (aka Testing) distro, but in order to get all the files off the Internet, I have to have my PPPoE connection working. To do this, I got the PPPoE software from Roaring Penguin. It compiles and installs fine on a completely installed system, but I can't do that