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Installation

PPP Configuration Information

If the target machine gains its Internet access using PPP rather than Ether 

net, there will be some configuration necessary before access to the Internet

can be established. The Debian Base System, comes with the PPP daemon

installed, but not configured. Once configured, a PPP connection can be used

to complete the installation, when necessary. Beginning with the 2.0 release,

Debian has provided a PPP configuration utility, which will be offered at the

first reboot after the installation of the base system. You should probably still

read over the following information.

What will be described here is a simple connection to a service provider with

no special authentication. This is the most common connection method and

should work in most cases.

What You Need to Know:

From the Internet Service Provider:

The dialup phone number

The Login Name to use for the PPP connection

The account password

The IP address of the ISP's Name Server

The dialup number is not the same number you use to contact tech support

or the front office of your ISP. This is the number that they will provide for

connecting to their machine. The ISP will also provide you with a Login Name

(possibly of your choosing) and a password to start with. This password should

be changed to something else at the first opportunity.