I connect to my ISP with pppoe and was unable to do it from stage 1 install, so I patched the gentoo cd iso and added whatever was needed to connect : The only changes I've done concerns the file rescue.gz under isolinux. I added : - libcrypt - pppd 2.4.1 patched for pppoe (replaced existing files, not being sure about their suitability for rp-pppoe) - binaries for rp-pppoe 3.4 edited /install.txt, adding some guidelines for pppoe configuration Some remaining problems so far : The script adsl-setup will fail, as sed is not on rescue. Doesn't bother me too much, as the file /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf is commented quite largely, so it is easy to nanoing it. adsl-start won't terminate properly... but adsl-connect (to be used in conjonction with &) works fine called directly. (Disconnecting meaning killing this process) The scripts from rp-pppoe providing firewalls won't work either, as ipchains binary isn't there. (I tried adding it, but it seems the kernel hasn't been built with the necessary options...) The absence of a firewall for the very first hours of installation doesn't disturb me much, but I may be quite wrong... (Then, I suppose it could be obtained by other ways, but I'm certainly not a firewalling expert !) There is the url for the patched rescue.gz : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/phj/rescue.gz and there is a url for a gentoo-1.2 ix86 iso, with this patched rescue.gz and a stage 1 tarball : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/phj/gentoo.tar (I messed a little during the mkisofs process, and the stage 1 tarball appears under the name stage1_i.tgz, a 8+3 chars limitation I guess...)
I've put this into the distfiles on our ibiblio mirrors, since m. jondot was having some connection issues. Verwilst, please take a look, because this is something that's sorely needed on our installation process.
Just a precision : the file under distfiles is gentoo-pppoe-ix86.iso
*** Bug 4197 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
PPPOE will be on the Gentoo 1.4 iso. thanks
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
