> 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*
If you got no ftp, that means you don't have the netstd package... which is
in section net. You need netstd, and netbase... if memory serves. If you
do have the binaries, and the setup isn't working... try reading the HOWTO
for networking NET2-HOWTO. The basics are, that after you have the basic
net tools... you need to configure the communications layer the network is
to communicate through... PPP, SLIP for dial up or ethernet, tokenring,
loopback or whatever communications services your net requires. To be able to
see if your network is working, you should be able to use the loopback device
to telnet or ftp your own machine... to do that, you need to register those
services within your machine (as a server for those protocols), this is done
in the /etc/inetd.conf file... the lines that do this are:
#:STANDARD: These are standard services.
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/in.ftpd ftpd
telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/in.telnetd telnetd
finger stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/in.fingerd fingerd
#:BSD: Shell, login, exec and talk are BSD protocols.
shell stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/in.rshd rshd
exec stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/in.rexecd rexecd
login stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/in.rlogind rlogind
ntalk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/in.talkd talkd
After you got the network working internally (loopback), you can prooceed
with setting up other communications layers.
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