Robert LeBlanc <rob...@leblancnet.us> writes: > I too have been bitten by this. For as flexible as the Debian Installer is > and everything you can do, it's pretty disappointing that it can't do VLANs. > A lot of enterprises use VLANs, and it seems it would be important to have > VLAN support to install Debian. It's no fun to reconfigure the network just > to install/reinstall.
I hacked VLAN support into the Sarge installer once upon a time. It wasn't a big deal, like adding the vconfig binary and extending netcfg here and there a little bit. The problem is that you can't just download it like the other optional components, so it would waste memory in the vast majority of installations. Which wouldn't be a problem but in the more memory constrained situations... I can't judge this. It would be less of a problem if d-i used the Busybox ip applet *and* if that supported VLANs. Until then, I'd work around this by adding the vconfig binary to the installer medium or loading it as "additional firmware". :) -- Regards, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
