Hi: just installed Debian from netinst..I did ppoeconf


plog give me this :

localhost pppd[891]:connect ppp1 <--> /dev/pts1/1
localhost pppd[891]:PAP authentication succeeded
localhost pppd[891]:not replacing default route to eth0
localhost pppd[891]:local IP address 200.113.46.76
localhost pppd[891]:remote IP adress 10.52.0.2
localhost pppd[891]rymary DNS address 200.50.96.90
localhost pppd[891]:secondary DNS address 200.54.144.227

ifconfig ppp0 give me this:
ppp0 link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
Inet addr:200.113.46.67 P-t-P:10.52.0.2 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP Pointtopoint running noarp multicast mto:1492 metric:1
Rx Packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Tx Packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
colisions:0 txqueuelen:3
Rx bytes:3448 (3.3KiB) Tx bytes:97(97. 0 )

OK..it looks like I'm connected to the ISP
Now..what else need done tostart downloading the packages (xserver-xfree86,gnome ..or whatever
I would like to download and install synaptic to help me select and install packages in a sort of graphical environment..what do I have to do??

From where I'm standing...(sort of minimal debian)....what do I need to setup a desktop environment ???

Thank you all for your help

Copter

you should have installed the base system over the net, including setting up your apt source list (http or ftp section)

apt-get install x-window-system
apt-get install gnome (or kde or wmaker or whatever)
apt-get install synaptic

Hi : has anybody installed debian from the installer Cd (netinst) ??

OK..I did it..no hazzles..except that I have an adsl connection to my ISP..I did ppoeconf..and get the results above after testinf

If I ping www.google.com ...I get unknown host www.google.com
If I do an apt-get update ...all I get are errors accesing the sites in sources.list
Looks like there is a dns issue here...

What can I do to resolve this problem..and start installing packages in debian???

thank you

Copter

What can

Check the existance of name server entries in /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx