[plug] Debian queries

[Lindsay Allen]

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Walter Logeman wrote:

> 
> Martin, John, all 
> 
> I had my first go at the installation last night... and among the
> many things on my learning curve is the networking, inspite of
> all the help! 
> 
> > John> Walter writes:
> > >> So will setting the network up conflict with setting up the dial up
> > >> connection to the net?
> > 
> > John> Only in that the network setup script will insist on making your
> > John> LAN the default route.  After setting up the network edit
> > John> /etc/init.d/network and remove the defaultroute option from the
> > John> route command.
> > 
> > [ "${GATEWAY}" ] && route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
> > 
> > So no, not unless you set a gateway.
> 
> I am still not clear... I said YES to networking even though it
> warned me about PPP which I also want to install.
> 
> The resulting questions were not so easy, I opted for default as
> suggested & when there were multiple choices I used intuition :)
> 
> Naming my machine was easy, I called it psy.  The domain name for
> the network was harder... as the other one is a win98 laptop,
> already networked to the windows disk in this machine... is there
> an existing domain name that widows uses?  The "workgroup" name?
> 
> I just made up another name.
> 
> I have set it at psy.home.
> 
> 
> IP  address:  as in the laptop:  192.168.0.2   ?
> 
> netmask:  I used the default   255.255.255.0   ?
> 
> Broadcast address: I took the first  of the three options... I
> don't have them in front of me now.
> 
> Gateway: no
> 
> dns  - set none
> 
> Where is this leading me... I will now need to redo all this
> again later, comments and tips appreciated.
> 
> 
> Walter
> __________________________________________________________________
> Walter Logeman  walter at psybernet.co.nz  http://www.psybernet.co.nz                    
> 
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We seem to have few Debian newcomers with problems.  How does the idea of
having a Debian Install session appeal?  I have six spare connectors in my
hub here, so I am willing to have up to six people here, or we can meet
elsewhere.  But I can't lug my computer + terminal + keyboard+ etc up all
those steps to UCC any more.  At home I have two Deb boxes and a permanent
modem connection.

Has anyone got a cdrom with potato debs on it?

Lindsay
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Lindsay Allen   <allen at cleo.murdoch.edu.au>  Perth, Western Australia
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