Hi Eduard Thank you very much for your speedy answer!!
> #include <hallo.h> > Andreas W�st wrote on Mon May 27, 2002 um 07:29:21PM: > >> be now, woody got finally freezed, and everything is pointing to >> stable. So after the base installation, tasksel obviously gets its >> packages from the potato directories and doesn't succeed to configure >> it all correctly. Is this really like this? At least the sources file >> points to stable. > > So hope that Woody be released soon, then the apt paths do work as > expected. I'm full of hope since at least one year.. ;) Should I really wait?? >> So how should I proceed to do a proper install? Should I change the >> sources file manually, and when? After starting tasksel? And how? > > Login on the second console as root and run > "editor /etc/apt/sources.list" ;) Surprise surprise!! >> Should I just substitute every "stable" by "testing"? Or do I have to >> await final release, and it's just a bad point in time to now install >> woody? > > Better substitute with "woody" for the next time. Alright. But when's the optimal point-in-time during base-config? >> Another problem occured: as I am on a lan but without an always-on >> connection, it's not been the case that the network was up when the >> system booted on its own power for the first time, so the boot process >> hung when configuring the network. Afterwards I wasn't able to bring >> up the interface to connect, I had to reboot. What do I have to do to >> bring up ethernet (a dhcp server is giving me my ip, aswell as all the >> other stuff like gateway, dns server...)? I > > If you did setup the interface with DHCP while installing, and the DHCP > server is up, you will get working network. When init hangs, there is a > wrong default (gateway) route, set by you manually or broken DHCP > server, or your gateway is down. Yes, the dhcp server was down when I booted the machine, so it couldn't find a single computer on the network. But I did not know how to bring up eth0 after boot had completed. >> couldn't find a script which I could have run manually.. (sorry but I >> am kinda newbie in this sector). > > ifdown eth0 > ifup eth0 Cool!! I always thought it has to be something like this but was obviously looking in the wrong places for it (I found a lot of interesting stuff but not this.. Murphys law..) > and read "man interfaces" Thanks a lot!! Always tried with "man network". No luck.. -- Well, thanks again for your instructive answer, all the best, Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
