Hello, I am a high school student in Toronto, Canada who would dearly like to learn unix and unix programming. After surveying all available distributions on the Internet, I chose Debian's as the most complete and technically perfect. Alas, I have some problems. I have just downloaded the 5 disk installation set and am ready to setup my 486, 120 MB HD, 4 MB ram, for Linux, but I don't have a CD-ROM, so I can't download all the packages I need. I have been using UNIX for a year now, at my ISP (Internet Service Provider), for programming purposes, but not system setup/admin. This is what I would like you to help me with. I have a fixed IP address service from my ISP and would like to setup my 14.4kbps modem with Linux on a PPP connection to the internet. What are the basic packages I need to download and setup to do this? How would I setup these packages? From what little I known about UNIX, I believe after this is done I can then mount a remote NFS site on my system and then I can run the rest of the installation overnight. What I basically need is TCP/IP service via PPP (and general internet applications that go along with this: mail, ftp, telnet, etc.), and the ability to do some C/C++ programming with gcc and some perl programming as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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