Well, here goes. I have installed debian a number of times, never successfully. When I go bakc into the installation to fix something, I have to redo everything. That gets tedious when your doing it from floppies :-( (no cd burner for me). Well, here is my problem, and if anyone has time to help me out, I'll be very thankful. Here goes nothing...
I install linux from the floppies. The main problem is that I am tryig to install it on a computer I got from the school library when they got new ones. Here's the problem, I have no idea what drivers to install to get it working properly. From what I see I have to pick them out by hand in Debian, and I have no idea which ones will do what. The only one I install then is the PPP support, which i figure might get me connected to the net to get the rest of the stuff. I'm moer than likely wrong, so if anyone can instruct me on what to do I'd be grateful. Now, when I only install that PPP driver, i make it fine into the main area of defining the base system and stuff. I set the time, and I get to the point where I need to put additional packages no the pc. I can't do this with a cd because i said before I don't own a cd burner. So I try to hook up to the net using a PPP connection and my isp and the computer can't seem to find the modem. It asks for a manual port. Now, I've gone through a number of them, but I can't seem to make a conncection to the net. The last of my problems is that I finally got into the shell (after the login, ect.) without installing any packages, more an accident that intentionally. Well, now I went back in to the installation process to retry the PPP package downloader. Well, to make it short, I had to reinstall, but nohing works now anyway, so I will have to reinstall after all. This isn't really anything you can help me with unless you have some advice that will help if it happens again. Well, thanks for reading all of that. If anyone can answer those questions and tell me what I'm doing wrong and how to fix it, then thanks. Well, goodluck to everyone else out there. Until the inevitable next time... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
