Re: Great but...

[Russell Hires <rhires@earthlink.net>]

At least I'm not the only one who doesn't have a problem with not being 
automatically being connected to the net. 

There's the option of installing basedebs.tgz, which I don't know if it 
includes the debian pppconfig utility or not...try that.

Russell

On Monday 16 July 2001 21:29, Robert Schweikert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am interested in becomming a Debian developer/maintainer and thought a
> good starting point would be to instlal the current testing
> distribution. Thus I downloaded the disks directory created my floppies
> and off I went. Everything worked great until it was time to install the
> base system. I did not have the option to configure my modem and pull
> the packages of the web. Did I miss this somewhere along the line? It
> appeared that it was assumed that the system was somehow connected to
> the web (through LAN most likely).
>
> I'll have to think of a new strategy.
>
> Are there any plans to let user's configure their modem prior to
> installing the base system? This would be perfect.
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
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> Robert Schweikert                      MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU
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