Installation over pppoe stopped working in 9.04-final

[Josef Wolf]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:33:18PM -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 05/05/2009 09:46 AM, Josef Wolf wrote:
> > To initiate installation over pppoe, I add "modules=ppp-udeb" to the
> > kernel command line (as described in the installation manual).  This
> > has worked fine in the previous releases up to (and including)
> > jaunty-beta.
> 
> Never done it, but did you add 'install modules=ppp-udeb' or just
> 'modules=ppp-udeb'?

Without the "install", d-i would not even start running, would it?

> I wonder if this might have something to do with it - again I've no
> experience with ppoe/ppp-udeb:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/anna/+bug/362989

Yeah, seems like this might be related.  I use a customized image, too.  
But sorting the Packages did not help.  Then I've noticed the ppp-udeb
package is no longer contained in the image (it was contained in the
beta image)

I guess this:

> [timestamp: Fri 2009-04-17 17:55:05 +0100
> message:
>   drop ppp-udeb from installer to supported-installer, since it isn't
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

means exactly that: they have removed ppp-udeb from the image.  So now,
how do I get it back into the image?  Are there plans to put it back in
9.10?