From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 07:00:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BEE437B401 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 07:00:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC3D43FBF for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 07:00:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rpratt1950@earthlink.net) Received: from user56.net310.fl.sprint-hsd.net ([198.70.220.56] helo=k6-2.weeble.com) by grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 192teV-0000Bn-00; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 07:00:43 -0700 Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 10:01:09 -0400 From: Randy Pratt To: Rob Lahaye Message-Id: <20030408100109.35ed7a42.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Advanced Installation Guide: add installing over PPPoE X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 14:00:45 -0000 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, Randy