From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 9 07:54:36 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 5659D16A4BF; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 07:54:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net (mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82B8443F85; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 07:54:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rpratt1950@earthlink.net) Received: from user86.net972.fl.sprint-hsd.net ([69.34.137.86] helo=kt.weeble.com) by mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19wjt4-0004ln-00; Tue, 09 Sep 2003 07:54:34 -0700 Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 10:54:33 -0400 From: Randy Pratt To: Marc Fonvieille Message-Id: <20030909105433.2724531a.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <20030908164728.GA647@nosferatu.blackend.org> References: <3F5C0CEC.8010203@snu.ac.kr> <20030908164728.GA647@nosferatu.blackend.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: lahaye@snu.ac.kr cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org cc: rpratt@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is "Installing FreeBSD Using PPPoE" not included in handbook? 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, 09 Sep 2003 14:54:36 -0000 On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 18:47:28 +0200 Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 02:00:28PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > Being a PPPoE user myself, I am quite surprised that "Installing FreeBSD > > Using PPPoE" is > > not included as a section in "Installing FreeBSD" of the handbook. > > > > It took me quite a while to get to this information. It is indeed a bit > > tricky, but nevertheless > > so essential to PPPoE users, who want to install via their network > > connection. I herewith > > also confirm that it works! > > > > The "Installing FreeBSD Using PPPoE" info pages are at: > > > > http://www.treefort.org/~rpratt/pppoe/article.html > > > > Randy (rpratt) is one of our committers, maybe he'll add this section > when he will have time. I think we discussed this in April. http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=120743+0+archive/2003/freebsd-doc/20030413.freebsd-doc I'm still very reluctant to add work-arounds to the handbook for an installation method that is not officially supported by sysinstall especially when it would involve instructions to ignore warnings and error messages. The method I described is probably far from ideal and has had very little testing. I also have an idea that the process could be done from the virtual console much cleaner but I've not had the time to do any testing to verify this. I'll try to take a look at this in the near future. I think the best approach is to file a PR to request adding a PPPoE installation option to sysinstall. I appreciate your interest in this since it does fill a small niche but I'm sure you can understand that if we put something in the Handbook, we want to be sure that it is correct and done in the best manner. Thanks again, Randy --