Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 10:01:09 -0400 From: Randy Pratt <rpratt1950@earthlink.net> To: Rob Lahaye <lahaye@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Advanced Installation Guide: add installing over PPPoE Message-ID: <20030408100109.35ed7a42.rpratt1950@earthlink.net>
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Rob Lahaye wrote: > Hi, > > Instead of having PPPoE install guidelines info on a remote website, > why not adding this to the handbook? The "Advanced Installation Guide" > section would be the best place for this. > > The site I'm talking about is: > http://www.treefort.org/~rpratt/pppoe/article.html > > Regards, > Rob. Hi Rob, I presume that the PPPoE install worked for you. In general, I agree that the documentation should be in a central site. I've not added this to the Handbook primarily because its not an "officially" supported installation method. Typically this method is only needed is in a situation that a user with PPPoE does not have a cd burner. To my knowledge, I think it has come up on the lists twice in the past year so its not a common installation method. I would prefer to see this option added to Sysinstall so that it is more straightforward and does not produce warnings/errors that have to be ignored. I'm not a coder but I suspect that adding anything to Sysinstall causes problems with fitting it on the floppies. The method I've described in the document is a kludge at best. It is just rough notes I kept while experimenting and I've not gotten back to cleaning them up. What does everyone think? Should we add something to the Handbook or should I just do some clean up and leave them where they are at? My initial reaction is to not set any precedent of including unsupported methods in the Handbook. Thanks, Randyhome | help
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