Re: Debian at Home

[Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu>]

On Fri, 9 May 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote:

> I assume that dial-up ppp can still be configured after I answer 'no'
> to the network question ?

I've set up many such systems, but off the top of my head, I'm not 100% 
sure.  I believe it goes as follows:  Answer 'yes' to the general network 
connection, then answer 'no' to the question of whether you have a 
continuous (i.e. ethernet) connection.  Then, as best you can, fill in 
info about IP address, gateway, DNS, netmask, machine name, domain name, 
based on information about your ISP.  If your ISP uses dynamic IP, then 
just make up an IP address.  Putting more than one DNS address used to 
cause a problem--I think it must have been fixed though.  BTW, a lot of 
this info might be in the Install doc in the disks directory at your ftp 
site.

Also, I didn't mention this before, but don't worry about installing the 
default packages, they won't break your system even if it is isolated.  
However, I don't know about all the 1000+ packages because I just use a 
subset of them.  I always "deselect" the news-related packages before 
installing on a home machine because I have no interest having direct 
usenet access from a relatively isolated machine.

> On Fri, 9 May 1997 10:38:33 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
> >On Fri, 9 May 1997, dcypher wrote:
> >
> >> I would like to install Debian on a system I have at home.
> >> Are there any packages that should not be installed when
> >> I install Debian ?  I'm thinking that some packages might
> >> require DNS services or other services, and would hang
> >> Debian if the services were not found.....
> >> I guess my question is: Can Debian be installed 'out-of-the-box'
> >> on a system that is not connected to any network, or do I have
> >> to pull some packages ? 
> >> (disregarding the access to the packages)
> >
> >Debian can be installed on an isolated machine without any (additional) 
> >problems.  During the "configure the network" step, you will be asked if 
> >your system is connected to a network.  Simply answer "no" and proceed.

Syrus.

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