Since none of the experts answered, I've got a question. Is it possible you need a different site? I have no experience on proxy servers, does deselect look at the proxy & then proxy does what dselect wants? Can you bypass proxy & just let dselect do its own thing? Dean
> John D Smith wrote: > > Hi, > I have loaded debian onto a satellite 110CS for about the 4th time > this weekend, But finally getting somewhere, I have a situation where > the network I am plugged into has a proxy server out to the internet. > Now I can actually watch in the proxy server window to see what the > embryo Debian box is asking the proxy to do, and when I choose ftp > access in dselect, the proxy is instructed to do a DNS search for the > debian site. But it returns a no go or failure, and that is about as > far or as near to getting going with Linux I can get. > Anyone got a hint. > jds >