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Congratulations! If you've made it this far, you should have a working Debian installation on your new router. Now comes the fun part...setting up the network services. Go ahead and read the welcome screen, then hit OK. Next, answer the question regarding your system clock...
...select your time zone...
Now enter a root password. As you should know, root password is the Unix/Linux equivalent to the system administrator. This password will allow full, unrestricted system usage. For this reason you should try to make the password as strong as possible.
Now we'll create a standard user account. This is a "non-privileged" user which only has limited ability to change the system. This is the account you should use normally to avoid accidentally breaking the system. Enter the actual name, the user name, and the password as it prompts you.
Next we move on to configuring Apt. Apt is the Debian package manager...if you plan on using Debian you should learn a bit about Apt. I recommend the documentation at www.debian.org for that. For now, you can scan your CDs if you have them, otherwise click No when you're done.
Select Yes to add another Apt source.
Apt packages can be downloaded directly from the Debian servers, and since I chose to use a network install, I have to add the network Apt sources. You can choose either HTTP or FTP to do this:
Choose the country nearest you, then choose any mirror site that you like. They all function the same.
Unless your ISP uses a proxy, you can just leave the next field blank and hit Ok. If you don't know what this is, you probably don't need it.
Apt will now download the list of packages from the server you've chosen. We will now be prompted to choose which pre-configured system installation we want. We want to choose ONLY manual package selection! This is the key to building a custom system, as it will allow is to have a bare system and install only the programs we need.
We are now presented with the Aptitude program interface. Aptitude is a very handy package manager that allows you to browse all the Debian packages available for install. If you know in advance that you want certain packages, you may do so here. For the sake of this tutorial, we are simply going to quit the program for now. Type the lowercase letter 'q' to quit, and select Yes to close the program.
On the next screen just select Ok to local delivery only unless you know you want to use different SMTP settings.
You should be able to just hit Ok for the next screen as well.
Congratulations! Initial configuration is now complete and you have a fully working system. Now we can get on to the fun stuff...setting up our network services.
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