Re: PPPoE and boot floppies

2001-06-19 Thread Russell Hires
[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

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 system,

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 - Nope,

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 Russell Hires
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 boot floppies Date: Mon, Jun 18, 2001, 4:29 On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:12:58AM +0300, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: Do we still

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 pppoe

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 is

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

2001-06-17 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 I