[SGVLUG] last nite's meeting - please help

[Dustin Laurence]

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 02:19:13PM -0700, David Lawyer wrote:
> > 
> I tried it again, and same problem as before.  It seems to only work
> for an ethernet connection to the Internet and not for an analog modem
> connection (there's no software on the floppies for dialout).  So
> Debian's documentation about this is misleading.   So I filed a bug
> report, which (per Debian) has been posted on one of their mailing
> lists.

First: if you're on a modem you are *not* "on the network" in most
senses of the word. :-)  Just like you're not "on the telephone" just
because you are relaying smoke signals with someone who is on the phone.

If it were me, I'd say the documentation is correct and your definition
of "on the network" is in error.

> I would hope that with a modem connection, only a minimal
> command-line-interface system would be installed, so that the user
> could get additional packages desired via apt-get.

I'm not sure this is worth supporting.  The time required would be
immense, and I wouldn't be surprised if the probability of corrupted
files is too great to expect a successful install.

Why not just surf to one of the many .iso sites and order the CDs for
$2?  The transmission rate may even be as good (will be, if you order
enough CDs).

Dustin
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