Re: Problems during Woody install connected to x-surf

[Andreas <an...@po...>]

Hi Michel

Am 17-Feb-02 schrieb Michel D=E4nzer:

> On Son, 2002-02-17 at 15:25, Andreas W=FCst wrote:
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>> Feb 17 ... (none) daemon.err dhclient-2.2.x: Make sure to set
>> CONFIG_PACKET=3Dy and CONFIG_FILTER=3Dy in your kernel configuration!
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>> Checking back with the 2.4.9 config file gave me CONFIG_PACKET=3Dm and
>> CONFIG_FILTER=3Dy. Well, seems as packet is a module, but the woody in=
stall
>> manual tells me it should definitely by compiled into the kernel to ha=
ve
>> the kernel working as a boot-floppy kernel. May this be an idea for fu=
ture
>> kernel compilations to support installations over network for users wi=
th
>> x-surf?
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> It is, I'll cook up new packages with this change.

That would be very fine!! :) Thank you very much!!

> This wasn't necessary when the boot-floppies used pump for DHCP.
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>=20
>> PPS: What about security during a network installation? Is there any c=
hance
>> to break into a system actually just installing, because there isn't a=
ny
>> root pasword set so far? Or spoofing the download files?
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> The Release file is signed, so if you worry about that, you can verify
> the signature and then the package files with the MD5 sums in the
> Release file.

Hmm, but how to do that?

>> Or is there simply nothing where a bad guy could hook in?
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> I don't see where he could, with no services running.

At least, that's fine :)

But... I couldn't install on my second try tonight: Doing the base
installation gave me a "malformed release file"! And I tried several time=
s to
connect to the server. What should that tell me?

I guess I just have to wait a few days until it gets rebuilt? Looking at =
it
with a webbrowser results in ... Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 21:58:50 UTC ...,=
 so
it hasn't been changed during today, and this afternoon, it had worked li=
ke a
charm!

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Kind regards,
Andi