I retried this morning, gave it the name 'debian.org' when asked, used tasksel(?) to select Desktop, office and not much else that I can remember, used 'advanced' for the Xserver, and then as the dog had to go to the Vets and me to the Doctor later, Alison took me to the Post Office to collect my pension and when I came home there was a screen which I 'OK'd' and lo and behold everything works!
What I didn't do was anything to do with my internet connection so the problems must be caused by my giving wrong answers to those. I know the number, user name, and password for my connection to my ISP so it must be the ISO code for UK/GB and the county number. Now I know its my fault I have another go at installing and write down the questions I can't answer or seem to be getting wrong and see if I can find the right answers, I will report my success of failure.
On 17-Jun-04 John Seago wrote:
I retried this morning, gave it the name 'debian.org' when asked, used tasksel(?) to select Desktop, office and not much else that I can remember, used 'advanced' for the Xserver, and then as the dog had to go to the Vets and me to the Doctor later, Alison took me to the Post Office to collect my pension and when I came home there was a screen which I 'OK'd' and lo and behold everything works!
Excellent!
What I didn't do was anything to do with my internet connection so the problems must be caused by my giving wrong answers to those. I know the number, user name, and password for my connection to my ISP so it must be the ISO code for UK/GB and the county number. Now I know its my fault I have another go at installing and write down the questions I can't answer or seem to be getting wrong and see if I can find the right answers, I will report my success of failure.
Having got this far, you seem to have a basically working setup. So I'd suggest: Don't Re-install!
Instead, (though I'm not familiar with debian) there must be a mechanism for setting up your ISP connection from within the working system.
Red Hat, for instance, has a "Main Menu" button on the task bar at the bottom of the screen (which has a red hat icon on it!), clicking on which throws up a menu with an item "System Tools" on it, which drops down to another menu which has "Internet Configuration Wizard" on it. Clicking on this brings up a window where you have the choice of setting up Ethernet connection, Modem connection, etc. So choosing the "Modem connection" would lead into configuring the dialup.
No doubt Debian has it organised a bit differently, so other people who know about this should give you detailed advice. But it's the best way to go, rather than re-installing, on the assumption that you system is now basically OK.
Best wishes, and good luck! Ted.
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:45:28PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
On 17-Jun-04 John Seago wrote:
I retried this morning, gave it the name 'debian.org' when asked, used tasksel(?) to select Desktop, office and not much else that I can remember, used 'advanced' for the Xserver, and then as the dog had to go to the Vets and me to the Doctor later, Alison took me to the Post Office to collect my pension and when I came home there was a screen which I 'OK'd' and lo and behold everything works!
giving it the name of debian.org sounds, erm, very wrong to me. Your machine is *NOT* debian.org, don't tell it that it is... My home machine was set up with hostname set to dustpuppy and domain to thehouse.home (which does not exist :), it just worked. At a guess I'd say that you're specifying some DNS servers that it can't access when not dialed up, you should probably not set any DNS servers during the setup *except* from in the ppp config, though I normally set that to automagic, which just works :)
Excellent!
What I didn't do was anything to do with my internet connection so the problems must be caused by my giving wrong answers to those. I know the number, user name, and password for my connection to my ISP so it must be the ISO code for UK/GB and the county number. Now I know its my fault I have another go at installing and write down the questions I can't answer or seem to be getting wrong and see if I can find the right answers, I will report my success of failure.
Interesting, I just throw the number in, as 0808blah, and that's about it ;)
Having got this far, you seem to have a basically working setup. So I'd suggest: Don't Re-install!
Instead, (though I'm not familiar with debian) there must be a mechanism for setting up your ISP connection from within the working system.
Red Hat, for instance, has a "Main Menu" button on the task bar at the bottom of the screen (which has a red hat icon on it!), clicking on which throws up a menu with an item "System Tools" on it, which drops down to another menu which has "Internet Configuration Wizard" on it. Clicking on this brings up a window where you have the choice of setting up Ethernet connection, Modem connection, etc. So choosing the "Modem connection" would lead into configuring the dialup.
Open xterm, su to root, pppconfig. Done. simple. For network setup, edit /etc/network/interfaces (man interfaces will give all the information required).
Hope that helps,
On Thursday 17 June 2004 12:45, you wrote:
Now I know its my fault I have another go at installing and write down the questions I can't answer or seem to be getting wrong and see if I can find the right answers, I will report my success of failure.
Having got this far, you seem to have a basically working setup. So I'd suggest: Don't Re-install!
Too late, too late!
I have however narrowed it down to the ISDN questions. So I will, on the next install, ignore those as I have no ISDN thingy's anyway. If it's not right next time then I'll repeat the ignoring it trick, and, as you suggest build it from inside!
Would my HP 710C be of any use to you?
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