> > 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.
The APT dselect method has fairly complete support for FTP and HTTP proxies, read the apt.conf man page and you should be able to get it going. Jason
