Hi list, I just did a netinst with testing/etch on a laptop in a corporate network in collaboration with our IT Department.
Everything went fine with the installer, but I had two points to solve: First run I was not able to install the linux-image on the machine using plain e3fs with automagically created partions. Because I was not sure, that it was my own error, I tried again. Next run I choose encrypted fs with lvm. This worked well and is in fact the way to protect a laptop in the right way. I had bad luck installing a working apt environment (for security updates) because our network proxy needs a NTLM Auth mechanismn to go through the proxy. Installation stops here, you can only set up the very basic debian system. Collecting the ntlmads and its dependencies by hand using packages.debian.org (no other debian machine on the network) is not amusing. After that work, I was able to update and upgrade the complete dist succesfully. My recommendation is to add these packages in the netinst packages. And perhaps my favorite editor JOE as well. You have to configure the ntlmads.conf by hand or script running on the lo interface on a free chooseable port and take this proxy entry to apt.conf or as an environment setting via export http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:port Have a nice day! -- wolfgang.schnitker<at> gmx.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
