On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Cox wrote: > I have debian running on an old computer. > It has no CD. > It is on a LAN > I can manually ftp to debian through my firewall if I use [EMAIL PROTECTED] > but I can not dselect. When I try it does not get to the ftp server. > > HELP
How do you ftp through the firewall? If it works like the one that I have to use at work, then it goes like this: $ ftp ftp-proxy [welcome banner from ftp-proxyserver] login: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [welcome banner from ftp.debian.org] password: <my email address> ftp> cd debian ftp> dir etcetera. Then you can instruct dselect to use the ftp-proxyserver like this: ftp site: <your proxyserver> passive: no username: [EMAIL PROTECTED] password: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> distributions: stable contrib non-free debiandir: debian This works fine for me. Some notes: - you must probably tell dselect to not use passive ftp, because that is the way most ftp-proxyservers work. - if you are trying to get packages from unstable, then you can enter dists/unstable/main dists/unstable/contrib dists/unstable/non-free as distributions, but you need dpkg from unstable before this will work (the stable dselect won't dig the slashes.) - don't be surprised when dselect wants to download 60 megabytes of .debs. You can choose to select packages that you want to download before dselect actually tries thyam all. Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .