Re: [Rule-list] no ppp support in install kernel?

[Marco Fioretti]

Raymundo,

I'm running really late for work now, but are you sure you need ppp
for that kind of install? What does the official RH documentation say?

        Ciao,
                Marco Fioretti
                RULE project leader

On Tue, May 07, 2002 23:32:18 at 11:32:18PM +0800, Raymundo Baquirin wrote:
> Hi, all,
> 
> I got the Red Hat 7.2 CDs but no cdrom drive usable with the Fujitsu Point 
> 510 that I'm installing on.  I wanted to try a network install over the 
> serial null modem cable that I use to connect the laptop to my desktop 
> machine.  But there's no pppd binary or /etc/ppp/* files in the install file 
> system.
> 
> I tried extracting the pppd binary from the ppp-2.4.1-2.i386.rpm on the Red 
> Hat CDs, copying it to the laptop and running pppd from the busybox prompt 
> (after creating /etc/ppp/options) but I get the message "pppd file not 
> found". I take it there is no support for ppp in the install kernel?
> 
> Ah well, I still have the option of doing a hard-drive-based install...
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Ray
> 
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