Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try it out. The reason I want to know
this is separately because Debian is changing the way they are going to
deal with the install. I may be able to convince someone (or, if I can't
just do it myself and make it available) to include this somewhere in
the boot-floppies, or to create something that can be separately
included in an install for people like me who are stuck behind PPPoE.
Also, I haven't heard of the PPPoE kernel module. I thought that was
only for 2.4 kernels? Woody is still looking targeted at 2.2.19, if it
never gets upgraded...
Russell
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>From: scott <piper@ij.net>
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] A Real Question
>Date: Sun, Jun 17, 2001, 21:27
>
> 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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