Re: ftp & mail
Weird noises you hear is modem, I believe.
And it's perfectly normal.
Anyway, once you can dial out to your ISP (do plog just to make sure that
you are connected), you can use apt or dselect to ftp files over to your
machine. No mail program though. And, before you can get Netscape, you
need to install X. If you really really want to surf the net without X,
get lynx. Basicly, what you got in base system is just enough to get you
into shell, so you can install the rest of packages. Just base system will
not get you anywhere, since it doesnt have X, man pages even, gcc or
anything. So just read docs about dselect/apt and use those to install
packages. If you don't succeed at ftpying files over to linux machine
directly, you can (if you have windows on your machine) DL files to your
windows partition, or dos, rather, and install files from there, using
'install from hard drive' access method in dselect.
Andrew
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