Hi Everyone,

I am a new member to this forum, although not new to Linux. I have used Gentoo and slackware a lot. My present system runs Gentoo but I am contemplating using Debian instead.

The only snag that I have in executing my plan is this:

I connect to the internet via ADSL PPPOE (my service provider is Chungwa Telecom, here in Taipei). I wish to install debian straight from the internet. However, there does not seem to be an option of configuring PPPOE during installation and then using it to install Debian, like I do in Gentoo.

Can anyone help me and let me know how to do this in Debian. I am eager to try out Debian.

Awatinig your reply,

Thanks and Regards,
Michael.

you a cd or floppies(netinstall) and at the beginning, few things to setup and then choose ftp or http server(accept defaults settings) if you don't have one in mind. When choosing not to installed components from the cd it will ask you to configure your eth0

I don't think it's possible to install Debian via ADSL PPPoE using only installation floppies.

What I did was that I first downloaded the Sarge Debian-installer (beta) and burned the iso to cd-rom. From the cd-rom I installed the Debian base system to my hard disk.

Then I ran 'pppoeconf' to set up my ADSL PPPoE connection.

Then I added the nearest Debian ftp mirror to /etc/apt/sources.list and launched Aptitude (which is ncurses frontend for APT) to download all the apps that I wanted. (If you have trouble deciding what to put into your sources.list, try 'apt-setup'.)