First check to see if your Woody disk have the pppoe kernel module. You
may not need the roaring penguin software. If that doesn't work, then I
think you can use the ldd command to get a list of the libraries
required by your program. Then you can just copy them to a hard drive
partition or a floppy and load them into the ram disk from a shell (the
installation program lets you execute a shell).
scott
btw, you could do a potato install, set your apt sources to testing or
unstable, then do an apt-get update and dist-upgrade if you want to, but
it may be an interesting exercise to do it your way.
Russell Hires wrote:
>
> 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 from the boot-floppies that Debian provides. I can't
> even dpkg -i *.deb anything, because even dpkg isn't installed yet!
>
> 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 can connect to the 'net, and complete my install.
>
> I just don't know how to collect everything I need to make sure the
> binary works on the ramdisk. Anyone got any ideas on how to do this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Russell
>
> PS Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there...
>
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