Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-15 Thread IBMackey
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: The obvious question (please don't take offense) is: Did you start ppp before entering dselect? dselect, or rather dpkg-ftp, will attempt to make an ftp connection, but assumes that a ppp connection is up. It does not check, AFAIK, to

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-15 Thread IBMackey
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: i've cc-ed my reply to debian-user as you're more likely to get an answer from there. i don't use the ftp install method at all. On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote: Tried your script. Being the newbie chicken that I am, I entered the

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-15 Thread Adam Klein
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 09:39:24PM -0600, IBMackey wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: The obvious question (please don't take offense) is: Did you start ppp before entering dselect? dselect, or rather dpkg-ftp, will attempt to make an ftp connection, but

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote: [ snip! ] : : I too have been having trouble connecting to ftp.us.debian.org. : When I try to ftp there, I get the following: : : Connected to santanni.cc.gatech.edu. : 220 santanni.cc.gatech.edu FTP server (Version wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-15](1) Tue Oct 7

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote: try reinstalling the dpkg-ftp package is the only thing i can think of. are you behind a firewall of any kind? check your configuration of dpkg-ftp too... BTW, which version of the upgrade script did you run? Craig, I tried reinstalling, the

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-14 Thread Craig Sanders
i've cc-ed my reply to debian-user as you're more likely to get an answer from there. i don't use the ftp install method at all. On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote: Tried your script. Being the newbie chicken that I am, I entered the commands on the command line to make sure of spelling

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-14 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
The obvious question (please don't take offense) is: Did you start ppp before entering dselect? dselect, or rather dpkg-ftp, will attempt to make an ftp connection, but assumes that a ppp connection is up. It does not check, AFAIK, to see if there is such a connection. Bob On Wed, 14 Jan