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
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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 six people here, or we can meet
elsewhere.
Has anyone got a cdrom with potato debs on it?
Lindsay
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