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On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 06:07:51 +0200 (CEST) |
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"Tom von Schwerdtner" <tvon@×××××.org> wrote: |
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> I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before, and to be honest I dont |
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know |
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> if the current version solves this problem, but I installed r11 from the |
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> source boot CD (was isolinux at that point, dont know if it has changed) |
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> I was a bit troubled by the fact that PPP installs were not accounted |
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for. |
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> But, that is the past.....what I want to know is, will the next release |
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(1.0 |
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> or otherwise) include ppp support? |
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> I assume ppp support is just something that nobody has gotten around to, |
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> otherwise, ignoring dial-up users is a gigantic mistake. |
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I do not quite understand the question, I'm afraid. |
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We do have ppp ebuilds in the tree, but they might not be on the |
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installation CD. Installing Gentoo from scratch over PPP has, afaik, not |
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been throughly tested yet. |
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Once Gentoo is installed, setting up ppp is fairly easy (just merge ppp |
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and pppconfig, for instance). I daily check mail using ppp. |
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Kind regards, |
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Karl T |