>Target OS: Debian
>Under Application: Microsoft Virtual PC 2007
>Host: XP pro SP2
>Connection type: DSL
>Current Debian network type: Ethernet.
>My host network type: Ethernet
>
>Debian browser: iceweasel
>Debian desktop: Gnome (I think)
>
>I saw a cute tagline yesterday: "Ubuntu -- old African word for an OS for
>people who can't configure Debian".
>
>I have found that the majority of Linux users on usenet groups are
>jerks.:-)
>
>There are some nice people on those groups, but the jerk factor makes up
>for that.
>
>For several hours yesterday I worked on setting up networking from debian
>gnome and at the end realized that I was right where I had started, only
>with two more useless desktop icons on gnome..
>
>The idea is to get the guest Linux machine to share the DSL connection
>with the XP host and maybe someone here has trod this path before
>me........
>
>I have used nano to directly edit a config file. Once. (color depth)
>
>I made the root password and my user password the same -- a bad idea I
>understand now. To edit the config file, I have gotten around that using
>the same password with help from here.
>Dropping from gnome with
>ctl-alt-f2, the text screen leaves me pretty clueless -- other than
>shutdown :-).
>
>I know that it can connect if it wants to since part of the "net-install"
>was an option to download (get-apt, build,make, whatever) to download
>about 700 files from a mirror site -- which it did (about 30 minutes to
>install the OS and about 2 hours to install the apps.from "mirror")
>
>I need help in how to share the dsl connection of the XP host under MS VPC
>with the debian guest......
>
>FACE
>
>