On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 02:17 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > On 05/30/11 at 01:03am, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > On 5/29/2011 6:00 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > Do I need to download and install pppoeconf + dependencies or is there > > > another way to get a PPPoE connection? > > > > You buy a cheap consumer router, like everyone else does who isn't > > provided one by their ISP. For instance: > > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833156001 > > > > Find something similar there in Germany. Once you have it up and > > running you'll kick yourself for not doing it long ago. Saves lots of > > time and prevents headaches such as the one you're currently fighting. > > You encourage him to buy something, and discourage him from learning? Where > would we be if we all took your advice? > Ralf didn't imply he was incapable of learning or that he was looking for the > absolute fastest option. Maybe preface such advice, instead of implying that > this sort of lazy response is the best or only one. > > Maybe he has an interest in learning, or doesn't want to be behind a NAT, > doesn't want to spend money, or likes the options a linux router provides.
Today I wish to install with or without learning, it's just essential that I can set up a new Linux. On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 00:56 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > Debian packages are binaries, because Debian is a binary distribution. So there is no 'make' component to installation. > The metapackage for X.org is xorg, and the metapackage for gnome is simply gnome. So `apt-get install gnome xorg` should get you started if you don't need to customize which packages to install. It's said that I don't need to install PulseAudio, that's very important for my needs, so the GNOME package doesn't set up PA? Pardon for my broken English, I wish to know if there's a meta package to install packages for "autoconf, subversion, checkinstall, fakeroot build-essential kernel-package" etc. ... anyway, at the moment there's no pppoeconf command after installing by the netinst CD. "Debian Installer, starting with February 2007 supports installing a system via PPPoE and will configure the system accordingly. At the regular Debian Installer boot line just append modules=ppp-udeb (e.g.: type installgui modules=ppp-udeb to start a graphical installation via PPPoE). " (http://wiki.debian.org/PPPoE) I did boot "install modules=ppp-udbe", but pppoeconf is missing. During installation I didn't notice that there was an option regarding to PPPoE. -- Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1306748049.2322.28.camel@natty
