Hi Paul, Could you not 'pinch' (i.e. borrow) a CD from one of the other PCs? Shouldn't be difficult to install it on your PC temporarily, especially if it's IDE.
As for DHCP, install the dhcpcd package (the client) and it should work out of the box (it did for me in a similar case (firewall, DHCP leases, etc., but with a CD on my PC so installation was a tad simpler). Martin >From: "Moore, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'Debian Users'" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> >Subject: Getting at Debian distribution files >Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:11:50 +0100 > >Hi, >I'm trying to install Debian on a PC at work. I have the Debian 2.0 >Official CD from CheapBytes, which installed fine on my home PC (which >has a CD drive). > >The work PC has no CD drive, but it *does* have a network connection. > >I have got the install through to the point of running dselect as root >to load up the various packages. Now, however, I have a problem. As the >target PC has no CD, I can't load off the CD direct. I could (in theory) >load the packages I need to the target PC hard disk (I have a DOS/VFAT >partition which would probably do), but the partition isn't that big (so >I'd have to do it in stages) and the CD is in Rock Ridge (? is that the >name) format, with TRANS.TBL files in each directory. On Windows, the >names are mangled, and I'd have to manually rename each file as >necessary - a completely infeasible job... > >I have a network connection, so I could get the stuff from the debian >ftp site directly, but I'm behind a firewall. Dselect does offer the >chance to put in a proxy name/IP address, but it asks for a >username/password, which my firewall doesn't need... > >An alternative would be to mount the CD on a Windows 95 or NT box on the >LAN, and pull the packages off the CD via FTP or NFS, but this would >require a FTP/NFS server for 95 or NT which will handle translation of >filenames based on TRANS.TBL files - something which I haven't been able >to find. > >Can anybody suggest a way forward? Or an alternative option I haven't >thought of? > >Thanks, >Paul Moore. > >PS Once I'm up and running, I need my target PC to get an IP address via >DHCP (I've got a static one temporarily). Is there a package which >supports DHCP, and if so what do I need to do to set it up? > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
