Re: ??? About New Installation - Successes and Problems
On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Jason Gerry wrote:
> 1) The thing works. It's amazing. But I can't do too much since I installed
> off of the floppy disk 1.4 set. So I need to install things like, oh,
> editors and such. I have practically no support for anything yet. Anyway, I
> try to install what the FAQ/DOCS call 'packages', but all I can find is
> .deb files. I have lots of them!
.deb files ARE packages
if you point dselect at the debian directory structure, it should find
the Packages.gz files, which contains the list of available packages.
> 2) Networking Support. I installed it and compiled it with my kernel.
> TCP/IP Ethernet (and AppleTalk, since I'm a Mac guy). So now I want to be
> able to telnet into my Linux box from my Macs on the same Ethernet network,
> which I thought I could do by giving them IP addresses (fake ones, since
> I'm not really on the Internet except by dialup). So I set my Linux box to
> 1.2.3.4 and I can't manage to telnet to it. It is receiving the broadcast
> packets, but it's not happy.
Don't use 1.2.3.4, use one of the class c networks reserved for private
nets.
e.g.
192.168.1.0 network address
192.168.1.255 broadcast address
255.255.255.0 netmask
192.168.1.1 linux
192.168.1.2 mac1
192.168.1.3 mac2
192.168.1.4 mac3
192.168.1.5 mac4
etc
> Do I need to install more networking stuff first?
probably. depends on what you have installed already.
Craig
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