RE: two things

["Noah L. Meyerhans" <frodo@ccs.neu.edu>]

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On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Shaleh wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> dhcp is getting moved into base and onto the boot disks for this very reason
> last I heard.  By the time 2.1 is released this should be possible,
> 

When I installed Debian (nearly 2 years ago), I simply downloaded the dhcp
package and placed it on a DOS floppy.  Then I was able to install it on
my base system and continue with the network install.  It worked quite
well.

noah

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