DSL install without CD drive?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:51:37AM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> Are you wanting to do the install with floppies only and with the PC 
> negotiating it's own pppoe connection?  It would seem easier to just connect 
> either a temporary CD or temporary router.
> 
> You could give Debian a try, grab the floppies from 
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/current//images/floppy/
> 
> Debian has pppoe in the base system and pppoeconf which makes it very easy to 
> configure your DSL connection.  The question is whether the 4-5 floppies 
> contain pppoe/pppoeconf, perhaps someone else has tried it?
> 
> If you have other PCs on the network you might be able to PXE boot your box or 
> use the floppies in combination with a local install image. More details on 
> exactly what difficulty you're having would help ...

I believe in expert mode the debian sarge installer supports pppoe.  I
have never tried it though.

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