Mentioned on DWN

Heh, I have been mentioned on Debian Weekly News for my very first time :-) . Still, I must make a correction and admit I didn't do a full install due to #407702.

In spite of that, installs over PPPoE have been confirmed and are working properly (with ppp-udeb 2.4.4rel-5) by appending modules=ppp-udeb to the D-I boot command.

Installation guide text proposal is tracked by bug #408340.

pppoe testers needed (ppp-udeb) - take 2

I am renewing my call for testing installations over PPPoE, after fixing an issue reported on both my blog's comments section and also on debian-boot. Thanks for those tests.

So please, make the same tests I asked previously, but with the new image:

http://users.alioth.debian.org/~eddyp-guest/ppp-2.4.4rel-5/mini-with-ppp-udeb-20070124-1.iso


(This image is also signed and the md5sums file is updated and signed, too.)

pppoe testers needed (ppp-udeb)

(Stop the tests for now, it seems I made a mistake. Will fix it tonight and make an update.)

I have been working recently on an update to the ppp-udeb package (responsible for configuring PPPoE networking in D-I and the target system).

I think I have finished fixing the last bad bits from the ppp-udeb package[*], but currently I am unable to do a test of a complete installation due to bug #407702 in qemu. Still, I am confident it should just work.

So I am asking if there are people interested in testing the image I have prepared with the new ppp-udeb package. The image can be downloaded from:



http://users.alioth.debian.org/~eddyp-guest/ppp-2.4.4rel-5/mini-with-ppp-udeb-20070124.iso



(Security concerned people can check the signature and md5sums and go on, if they trust me :-) )

How to test

In order to test, just boot the image (no boot parameters are needed) and try to do a basic installation via PPPoE.

What should be (or would be nice to be :-) ) checked:

• in D-I environment
• bad/good login should be detected (good logins are silent)
• transitory problems when trying to do the initial connection (cable unplugged or PPPoE server down) should be detected
• in the installed system:
• target system boots fine with the PPPoE connection set up correctly
• hosts file and host name are set correctly
• permissions are set correctly on the network configuration files and the ppp configuration files (an output of "ls -lR /etc/ppp" in the target would be appreciated)
• loopback interface is configured correctly

Please respond as soon as possible (eddy.petrisor at_sign gmail.com).

[*] I did some tests myself but I can't test everything due to bug #407702 in qemu; some screen shots I made in qemu can be found at http://users.alioth.debian.org/~eddyp-guest/ppp-2.4.4rel-5/screen%20shots/


Update: thanks to some people that did the test, I found out that I made some wrong assumptions in my code. I will make another image tonight and make another call. This will hopefully fix the issue.