interfaces and ip addressing

["Ronneil Camara" <ronneilc@remingtonltd.com>]

Hi,

I'm new with debian, actually I'm 2 hours old now with debian. :-).

I would like to know what file is used for setting up ip addresses and
gateway. What about interfaces, how can I create more than 2 lan cards
enable. Let say, I got 2 3com nics.

In redhat, I used rpm. What pkg installer should I use in debian?

Can I also untar linux-2.2.19.kernel.source.tar.gz under /usr/src and do
the same stuff I've been doing for a long time? make menuconfig dep
clean modules modules-install bzImage. Should I also copy the compiled
kernel to /boot and edit lilo.conf then run lilo?

Where can I find rc.local? What is the similar redhat init scripts
/etc/rc.d/init.d in debian?

Thank you very much.

Neil