On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 19:54 +1100, Craig Anthony wrote: > Dear Debian team, > > hello > > I have recently installed Linux Debian and during installation I was > unable to subscribe to any mirror whether here in Australia, the U.S, > Germany or any mirror I have tried. After installation I have web and > LAN access to anywhere except for any debian.org site. > > During installation I was instructed I was unable to access a mirror > resulting in not being able to get official updates and to investigate > further. Also was the address of /etc/apt/sources.list. I navigated to > the folder and clicked on the file which launched the update utility. > After updating began after file 16 the utility could not get any further > information on updates. There were 24 in total. Attached is a copy of > sources.list.save. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would like > to investigate Debian from Debian and not having to boot to windows or > Ubuntu to have access to debian.org services or web sites. > > The P.C in question has an Intel Celeron 1.7GHZ processor with 768 meg > of RAM. It has an Intel 845GL chipset. > > All else so far O.K. Performs relatively quick for what it is. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated > > Kindest regards > Craig Anth
Hi, As because the installation was from a DVD the installer can not setup the connection during installation though the sources.list file was created with proper address of mirrors,you could not be connected with mirrors.So the line "# Line commented out by installer because.... ". But you should have access to any site including debian.org after installation and link/net setup.Check the connection and then open http//www.debian.org and http://www.debian.org/mirror/list. If it is found OK then try with Synaptic or aptitude(preferable in shell use 'aptitude update' and then 'aptitude safe-upgrade'). Your sources.list file is OK. Best regard, G. Nath. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
