Debian boot-floppies with dialup

[Ludwig]

I've done this before, but now I can't seem to figure how to do it again:

I'm trying to do a Debian install via boot-floppies, but it insists on
trying to configure the network via eth0 (which is not even connected to
anything) and won't give me an option to configure ppp0. I know I
didn't have to pop out the ethernet card last time. So how can I force
it to configure the network via ppp0?

[John Hasler]

Ludwig writes:

> So how can I force it to configure the network via ppp0?

You have to install the base system first. PPP is too big to fit on the
boot-floppies.
--
John Hasler
[email]john@dhh.gt.org[/email]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin

[Alan Connor]

On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 20:23:58 GMT, Ludwig <ludwig@superdeluxe.removethis.com> wrote:

>
>
> I've done this before, but now I can't seem to figure how to do it again:
>
> I'm trying to do a Debian install via boot-floppies, but it insists on
> trying to configure the network via eth0 (which is not even connected to
> anything) and won't give me an option to configure ppp0. I know I
> didn't have to pop out the ethernet card last time. So how can I force
> it to configure the network via ppp0?

You could choose to not-configure the network at that point
then use John Hasler's pppconfig program, which works great, later.

That's what I did.

Alan C

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[Ludwig]

In article <rlN6b.2791$PE6.1154@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink. net>,
Alan Connor <alanconnor@earthlink.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 20:23:58 GMT, Ludwig <ludwig@superdeluxe.removethis.com>
> wrote:

> >
> >
> > I've done this before, but now I can't seem to figure how to do it again:
> >
> > I'm trying to do a Debian install via boot-floppies, but it insists on
> > trying to configure the network via eth0 (which is not even connected to
> > anything) and won't give me an option to configure ppp0. I know I
> > didn't have to pop out the ethernet card last time. So how can I force
> > it to configure the network via ppp0?

>
>
> You could choose to not-configure the network at that point
> then use John Hasler's pppconfig program, which works great, later.
>
> That's what I did.

So how do I install the kernel etc without configuring the network?