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From: Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@×××××××.no>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] PPP on boot CD
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:34:59
Message-Id: 20011023183353.00bb62a4.karltk@prosalg.no
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] PPP on boot CD by Tom von Schwerdtner
1 On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 06:07:51 +0200 (CEST)
2 "Tom von Schwerdtner" <tvon@×××××.org> wrote:
3
4 > I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before, and to be honest I dont
5 know
6 > if the current version solves this problem, but I installed r11 from the
7 > source boot CD (was isolinux at that point, dont know if it has changed)
8 and
9 > I was a bit troubled by the fact that PPP installs were not accounted
10 for.
11 >
12 > But, that is the past.....what I want to know is, will the next release
13 (1.0
14 > or otherwise) include ppp support?
15 >
16 > I assume ppp support is just something that nobody has gotten around to,
17 but
18 > otherwise, ignoring dial-up users is a gigantic mistake.
19
20 I do not quite understand the question, I'm afraid.
21
22 We do have ppp ebuilds in the tree, but they might not be on the
23 installation CD. Installing Gentoo from scratch over PPP has, afaik, not
24 been throughly tested yet.
25
26 Once Gentoo is installed, setting up ppp is fairly easy (just merge ppp
27 and pppconfig, for instance). I daily check mail using ppp.
28
29
30 Kind regards,
31
32 Karl T

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Re: [gentoo-dev] PPP on boot CD Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>