Fwd: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Debian install

Ian Sutherland iansuth at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jan 15 10:28:19 PST 2005


Jacob, Further, since I was not able to configure apt-get during install, 
no internet connection, how do I do that now?

Thanks, Ian

>Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:15:52 -0800
>To: "General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions, 
>etc." <talk at nblug.org>
>From: Ian Sutherland <iansuth at sbcglobal.net>
>Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Debian install
>
>Jacob, I was not able to do what you suggested. I was able to get an 
>internet connection after the basic install by using this info. 
>http://users.pandora.be/Asterisk-PBX/PPPoE.htm  I do not know how to 
>install the GUI from this point.
>
>Thanks, Ian
>
>
>At 07:53 PM 1/13/2005, you wrote:
>>On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 19:26, Ian Sutherland wrote:
>> > Jacob, PPPOE, Yes.
>> >
>> > Thanks, Ian
>>
>>
>>My understanding is that you need to tell it to use PPP for your network
>>connection, set it up with DHCP on the PPP interface and use the pppoe
>>conf program to set the username/password.
>>
>>Someone wrote something about that here:
>>http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/11/msg00204.html
>>
>>Basically the important part is:
>>"Right now I have to download the netinst-image (because business does
>>not contain pppoe), install the base-system, give an local IP to the
>>machine (192.168.), and, when asked whether I want to create a PPP
>>connection, switch consoles and run pppoeconf."
>>
>>So it seems like you need to install the base system, create a PPP
>>connection and then run pppoeconf.
>>
>>If this is right, can you respond back with the information you used to
>>get it working for the archive?
>>
>>--
>>Jacob Appelbaum <jake at nblug.org>
>>
>>
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