On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On 13/1/2000 Renaud Dreyer wrote: > > >I have a friend who's about to switch from MkLinux to LinuxPPC, and who I'm > >trying to convince to try Debian. He has cable modem so FTP installation > >should be easy (I downaloaded all the packages I'd chosen in 13 minutes...), > >however he's using DHCP. I didn't see any option to use this from the > >installer (it's either static or PPP it seems). Is there a hack he could > >use to make this work? I was think it might be possible > >to temporarily exit the installer, go into a shell, get the DHCP package > >(previously downloaded on another partition), launch it manually and then > >go back to the installer. Would that work? > > unless you are installing the base system from over NFS you don't > need any network access in dbootstrap, I do not know if dhcp is in > the base system or not, if not (which would be somewhat broken given > the pervasiveness of this nasty dhcp `thing') you would have to just > go find the deb package and install it manually then you would have
This issue just came across debian-devel today. Apparently the stock potato kernel won't work for dhclient (dhcp-client), but one can use dhcpcd. Another option is to get a lease with another box, disconnect that box from the net, boot the ppc box, install using the info from the lease, then install dhcp client and renegotiate the lease. It's a pain and it would be better to have dhcp available at install, but that won't be making it into potato... ciao, der.hans > no problems using apt + dselect to install the rest of the system. > > now if you are installing base from nfs that is not over the cable > modem just use private IP addresses to access your private lan. -- # +++++++++++=================================+++++++++++ # # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # http://home.pages.de/~lufthans/ # # I'm not anti-social, I'm pro-individual. - der.hans # # ===========+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++=========== #