I am installing debian with net install, I have dsl and when deb is detecting DHCP, it passes with no errors, then after i reboot to finish installation and get to the apt sources setup I get errors when trying to connect to the sources, I think it is really just testing the sources at this point.

I am new to linux.


Thanks,

If you "ping www.google.com", does the output show any transmitted/received packets? What's the output for "ifconfig" and "ifconfig -a"?

From the menu to choose your sources mirrors did you choose:

a. cdrom
b. ftp
c. http

you have to choose ftp or http.

I tried ftp and http, I didn't ping www google com but will tonight, and also the ifconfig.

Using the Etch 100+Mb net-install cd I was able to get thru standard and base pkgs but apt-setup step using http failed. It turned out the cd missed pppoeconf. Apt-get install pppoeconf failed.
Luckily I had Etch install cd1(from prior giving up on dl'ing 10+cds) with pppoeconf pkg. Hopefully newer net-install cds will have pppoeconf.

For future reference, you don't need 10+ cds for installation. You can get by with just the first one. After downloading 4 CDs, I installed all kinds of stuff from just the first two, and rarely needed 3 or 4.

When 'Ping www google com' I get "unknown host www gooogle com"

Ifconfig
"eth0 Link encap : ethernet Hwaddr 00:c0:fo:55:34:e6
inet addr: 192.168.1.97 Bcast: 255.255.255.255 mask :255.255.255.0
UP Broadcast running Multicast MTU: 1500 Metric :1
Rx packets: 59 errors :0 droped :0 overruns :0 Frame :0
Tx packets : 335 errors :0 droped :0 overruns :0 carrier :0
collisions : 0 txqueuelen : 1000
Rx bytes :4589 (4.4 KiB) tx bytes : 27396 (26.7 KiB)
Interrupt : 11 Base address :0xbc00

Lo Link encap : Local Loopback
inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask :255.0.0.0
Up Loopback Running MTU : 16436 Metric : 1
Rx packets : 126 errors :0 droped :0 overruns :0 Frame :0
tx packets :126 errors :0 droped :0 overruns : 0 carrier :0
collisions :0 txqueuelen : 0
Rx Bytes : 10584 (10.3 KiB) Tx Bytes : 10584 (10.3 KiB)"


The error I was getting what when trying to set up apt-get sources
"Temp Error Resolving"..... and "Failed to Fetch".......

Thanks

Try typing:
You need the dots instead of spaces.

The ping will happily go on for a while (if it works), so to stop it just press Ctl+C (the control and C keys simultaneously). This will stop the pinging and print a few lines about the results.

By the way, Linux commands (and filenames) are case-sensitive, so it makes us nervous when you type things like "Ping" and "Ifconfig". For our sakes, just type ping and ifconfig, even if they start a sentence.

From the output of ifconfig, it looks like your network isn't properly configured (you're getting a lot of packet errors), but I'll let the folks who know what they're doing help you.

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had dots in when I did the cammand, just couldn't post like that on the forum till I had 5 post.

I thaught I didn't have any errors "errors :0"

Ok about the caps thing, I didn't know.

Okay, I didn't think of that with the dots. If you ever need to disable smilies or parsing of hypertext links in your posts, there are options to disable them (see Additional Options below the submit reply button).

No problem with the caps, I was just trying to be funny.

You're right, there were zero errors. Hard to read with a proportional font. As I said, I'll let the experts...

Yes, it seems that you need to configure your network connection first before you can use apt-get to install packages from Debian's package repositories.

I asked you to post us also the output for "ifconfig -a" because I thought it would have shown the ppp0 interface in addition to lo and eth0. If that's the case, then your dsl connection can be configured with "ppoeconf" (like lestoil already suggested). If that's not the case, then "pppoeconf" is not the right way to go. The main network config file in Debian is /etc/network/interfaces.

After you get your net connection working, you can re-run the sources configuration utility with "apt-setup", if necessary. "apt-setup" will edit /etc/apt/sources.list and you can edit that file also manually using a text editor (such as nano). There's a sticky thread where people have posted their sources.list configurations.

I did the "ifconfig -a" but I didn't see the pppo section and it was the same as "ifconfig".

I did try setting up "pppoeconf" and i remember getting, something about 1500 and 1460 this was a few days ago so don't remember much.

But I figured I better start over with my original install attempt and get help from there.

Well, then I don't know what type of net connection you have and how it should be configured.

But while we're waiting for real experts to come to rescue, you could try "dhclient eth0" (note: it's ethZERO) and see if that makes your net connection work. It's a dhcp autoconfiguration command, kind of like the network autoconfiguration that the installer does for you. If that works, then we can make it permanent by editing /etc/network/interfaces. If that doesn't work, we can try something else.

I will try that tonight, Bellsouth dsl lite if that helps any thing.

So running the "dhclient eth0" runs the part of the install that detects network settings?