Kendrick Myatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Um, how am I supposed to connect to the ftp site if I don't have ftp? Heck, > I don't have any inet capabilities except for ping! Maybe I missed > something in the documentation, but it appears that have a pretty useless > system installed here. Is there someplace I can look that will actually > tell me how to set Debian up? I swear, this is really annoying. I have > installed many complicated OS in my life, but this takes the cake :( Does > everyone go through this crap, or did I get defective files or something? > *sigh*
Debian is already lambasted for needing more disks than anyone else. The base disks only contain the netbase package, which is the basic binaries need to get a TCP/IP connection up, and not netstd, which is all the clients and daemons you expect. What is on the base disks is dpkg-ftp (it uses perl's Net::FTP, not ftp). Fire up dselect and choose the ftp method. You can download all the other packages with it. Hint - choose netstd for starters. :) Guy -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.