Try killing the installer then setting 'export http_proxy=http://192.168.65.253:8080' then running the installer
Regards James 2008/5/10 Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Glen, > > Thanks for the response. > > Glen Turner wrote: > >> You can bodgy it. Set up a transparent proxy and re-write >> the URLs the use the explicit proxy. > > That sounds like a bit of a hassle. > >> Plan B is simply to download the whole thing to somewhere >> local using wget and run a HTTP server from there. That's >> how I upgrade my machines at home, since it avoids multiple >> downloads from the ISP and is much faster than an install >> from a DVD, taking maybe 15 minutes. > > Geez, I have been spoilt. I've been doing Debian net installs > for what must be close to a decade. I *know* this is saving me > bandwidth. For instance I've run up a Debian i386 instance in > a Qemu VM. The Qemu disk img after a complete install with all > the dev tools I need for testing but without X is 1.7 Gig. > > If the installed image is 1.7 Gig, what I downloaded (ie compressed > packages) was *way* smaller than 1.7Gig. > > The Fedora alternative seems to be to downlaod a 3.4 Gig ISO. Sorry > I'm not buying. I'll wait until Fedora joins us in the 1990s or > fiddle with the proxy solution. > > Cheers, > Erik > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Erik de Castro Lopo > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > "There is no truth on earth but monotheism and following tenets of Islam and > there is no way for salvation of mankind but rule of Islam over mankind," > -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad > http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0708142013173859.htm > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
