Martin Brundage wrote: On Tue, 4 Mar 97 10:27:23 PST, you wrote:
>Now, as things seem to stand now, the ppp part seems like almost an after- >thought (as far as its importance to the effective operation of dselect >goes). The base install seems to be more targeted to people with: A) a >live internet connection, B) Debian on CD, or C) The Debian distribution >on another filesystem or NFS. However, like I mentioned, of the people I >deal with each day, about 5% of the Debian newbies fall into that group. >It seems appropriate to mention Occam's Razor at this point, y'know? > >- Joe > Joe, I agree the installation and setup needs more polish in this and other areas. In the meantime, however, you might want to check out a the tutorial on PPP setup in the latest Linux Journal (April issue). Marty I initially(last summer) had to use a w95 machine to ftp in the install disks and later the .deb files to get things going. It was tedious. After figuring out what I needed(dependencies) and downloading it, I pulled the drive, changed jumpers, and put it in the Debian box as a second drive. I think that dialup should be included in the base. However, I did run into problems when everything needed was not downloaded. I had a few things broken at times. Once I built a "mirror", I reinstalled to a clean drive. It was all very educational. Paul Wade, CEO Greenbush Technologies Corporation Web: http://www.greenbush.com/ Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ********************************* Fresh Linux CD's mailed monthly No refrigeration needed Under 1 billion sold! *********************************