Why is "Installing FreeBSD Using PPPoE" not included in handbook?

[Randy Pratt]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 18:47:28 +0200
Marc Fonvieille <blackend at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 02:00:28PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Being a PPPoE user myself, I am quite surprised that "Installing FreeBSD 
> > Using PPPoE" is
> > not included as a section in "Installing FreeBSD" of the handbook.
> > 
> > It took me quite a while to get to this information. It is indeed a bit 
> > tricky, but nevertheless
> > so essential to PPPoE users, who want to install via their network 
> > connection. I herewith
> > also confirm that it works!
> > 
> > The "Installing FreeBSD Using PPPoE" info pages are at:
> > 
> >     http://www.treefort.org/~rpratt/pppoe/article.html
> > 
> 
> Randy (rpratt) is one of our committers, maybe he'll add this section
> when he will have time.

I think we discussed this in April.

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=120743+0+archive/2003/freebsd-doc/20030413.freebsd-doc

I'm still very reluctant to add work-arounds to the handbook for an 
installation method that is not officially supported by sysinstall 
especially when it would involve instructions to ignore warnings and 
error messages.

The method I described is probably far from ideal and has had very
little testing.  I also have an idea that the process could be done
from the virtual console much cleaner but I've not had the time to
do any testing to verify this.  I'll try to take a look at this in
the near future.

I think the best approach is to file a PR to request adding a PPPoE 
installation option to sysinstall.

I appreciate your interest in this since it does fill a small niche
but I'm sure you can understand that if we put something in the 
Handbook, we want to be sure that it is correct and done in the best
manner.

Thanks again,

Randy
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