I fiund the instructions!

[bmike101 at cox.net]

How should I download dhcp3-client w/o installing it

The instructions are:
---1- download (preferably with a package manager 
---	dhcp3-client

How should I download dhcp3-client seeing as the os isn't on thet network. Should I 'apt-get install -d dhsp3-client' and pray there are no unmet dependencies?

---2- Edit /etc/network/interfaces so that it includes a 
---stanza like this:
---	iface eth0 inet dhcp 
---NOTE:
---may already have this line at the bottom of the script 
---but comment out everything except this line (existing 
---address/mask/Bcast.....)

You know I just looked at this file and modified it to look like the instructions say. I just added a hash by all the lines except the one i'm not supposed to. I looks thusly:

## /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)

##auto lo
##iface lo inet loopback

## DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE
#auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
#  address 192.168.0.10
#  netmask 255.255.255.0
#  broadcast 192.168.0.255
#  gateway 192.168.0.1
#auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
#  address 192.168.0.15
#  netmask 255.255.255.0
#  broadcast 192.168.0.255
#  gateway 192.168.0.1
##auto ath0
#iface ath0 inet dhcp
#  address 192.168.0.15
#  netmask 255.255.255.0
#  broadcast 192.168.0.255
#  gateway 192.168.0.1
##auto wlan0
#iface wlan0 inet dhcp
#  address 192.168.0.15
#  netmask 255.255.255.0
#  broadcast 192.168.0.255
#  gateway 192.168.0.1
## DO NOT EDIT ABOVE THIS LINE


---3- Recycle power (unplug for three minutes)
---4- type 
---	dhclient
---to restart dhcp3-client

> 
> From: <bmike101 at cox.net>
> Date: 2006/04/18 Tue PM 11:54:48 EDT
> To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Subject: Re: Re: system update
> 
> > It depends on what's wrong.  What does "ifconfig -a" show?  What does "route
> > -n" show? What are the contents of /etc/resolv.conf?  What kind of internet
> > connection are you using?
> > 
> 
> bmike1 at 0[Desktop]$ sudo ifconfig -a
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:08:C7:CA:62:4B
>           BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>           Interrupt:9 Base address:0xdc00 Memory:df100000-df100038
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           LOOPBACK  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> 
> bmike1 at 0[Desktop]$ route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
> bmike1 at 0[Desktop]$ more /etc/resolv.conf
> search ph.cox.net
> nameserver 68.2.16.25
> nameserver 68.2.16.30
> nameserver 68.6.16.30
> 
>  So it appears as if the upgrade left my cable modem unwilling or more as unable to do dhcp as after researching it a bit I found that I do not have /sbin/dhclient (the above WAS done from the hard disk os as opposed to the live cd.
> 
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