On Sat, 17 May 1997, Tj Johnston, N4UYQ wrote:
> I recently installed Debian 1.2 on my 586-100 home machine... no problems
> to speak of, except not knowing what command line options, if any, should
> have been incuded when configuring modules/drivers...
>
> but on to the real question....
>
> I'm a complete newbie to Linux... I would like to have FTP, IRC, and WWW
> browsing capabilities, for starters... I also understand there are several
> packages useful to Amateur Radio...
>
> Now the question... DSELECT has the option of installing packages via
> FTP... How do you do this, when the packages needed to communicate via
> modem and FTP arent installed yet?? Are are they???? and what packages do I
> need??
What did you install so far and how did you install it? To do a complete
new install by ftp, you probably need to have an ethernet connection to
the internet. If you have one, great, but if not, cd-rom installation is
probably the best bet. Or, if you have some other way to ftp the files to
your hard drive, you can install from there.
Once you get things installed, and have ppp or whatever working, the ftp
installation method can be used to install additional packages or
upgrades. Dselect has enough of the ftp tools included to do this, but
does not have any modem dialup capability built-in. I was able to do a ftp
installation to a computer without a cd-rom from a cd-rom mounted on
another computer on my local network.
Get the basic Linux installation and networking set up first. This
will give you ftp, telnet, etc. Then you can look for the other clients
for www, irc, inn, etc. You can ftp the HAM-HOWTO and AX25-HOWTO from
sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO. These will tell you of all the
amateur radio applications and where to get them. There are a few
available as Debian packages, but many more are available in source form.
73, Bob
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