Chapter 9 . Running Debian (Web server certificate) GNU/Linux 309 Stage
Chapter 9 . Running Debian GNU/Linux 309 Stage 2 The second stage boots from the newly installed packages and completes the configuration. 1. Your computer should reset on its own, and boot to the GRUB menu. GRUB should have already highlighted the default entry for Debian, so press Enter (or wait for the timeout) and give the system a few moments to boot. Then press Enter when the Debian Configuration screen appears. 2. You are asked whether your system clock is set to GMT. Select Yes only if your computer will not be running any other operating systems. Then select your time zone from a list. 3. The base system includes an empty password for the root (superuser) account, which means that you want to set one here. Select a password that you will remember but that others will not be able to guess easily. 4. Add a non-administrative account that you can use for your day-to-day tasks on the server. Enter your name, your desired username (this should not contain any spaces or punctuation other than dashes, must not start with a number, and is generally all in lowercase), and a password for this account. If you have more users to add, you can do so later, as described in Chapter 4. 5. If a network connection was not configured during stage 1, you will be given the chance to configure a dial-up PPP connection to an Internet service provider. This is performed using the pppconfig program, which is explained in further detail in the Dial-up PPP Connections section later in this chapter. Keep in mind that the system will try to dial-up once this step has completed. If you re using a broadband connection that requires PPPoE, press Alt+F2, log in as root, and run the pppoeconf program. You can still finish the system installation if you are unable to connect to the Internet at this time. However, you may later need to manually edit your APT sources list (as described in the Package Management Using APT section in this chapter) before all of the packages that you want are available for easy installation. 6. Select the installation medium that you want to use to install the remainder of the system. Insert your installation CD in the drive, select cdrom from the list, and press Enter. It takes a few moments to retrieve the list of packages available on the CD. 7. You will be given the opportunity to have the installer check for packages on additional CDs. If you have any other Debian CDs for this release, you can use them here.
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