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Hi,
I have two questions before installing Debian and was hoping someone here
might know the answer to either one or both of these. Please cc me on
replies for I am not subscribed to this list yet.
1) Many cable and xdsl modems now are using the DHCP protocol. I am
wondering when doing a network install from ftp.debian.org or a mirror, if
Debian can use dhcp to get on the net. I am using adsl and the only way I
can get on the net is with the dhcpcd package.
2) When I installed slackware, I did it over a null-modem serial
connection to an ms-dos machine running a program called telix. I do this
because I use screen reading software to read the screen and as of yet,
there is nothing available under Linux. Therefore, in slackware I log in
as root and go.
/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS0 vt100
and do the whole setup remotely by running setup from the remote machine.
Is this possible to do while using Debian? I understand that it goes into
the setup program as soon as you boot the bootdisk or cdrom so you'd have
to break out somehow and spawn the agetty and run it from the remote
machine. Anyone have any hints on how to do it?
Anyways, thanks in advance for your assistance. I'd really like to
replace this slackware box with a Debian 2.1 box when it comes out due to
the fact that it is more robust.
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