Re: [SLUG] A Real Question

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 00:55:58 EDT


On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 12:36:29PM -0400, 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!
>

Last I've heard (and this has been true for months), the boot-floppies
in Woody are not production quality. I don't know the fix, I just know
that I keep reading this in every Debian Weekly News.

<snip>

> PS Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there...

Thanks,

Paul



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