On Thursday 16 January 2003 19:53, you wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently dl'ed Matt Zimmerman's Debian-3.0r1 image to try out under > hercules. My base system is RH 7.3, hercules is 2.16.5. I initially had > some trouble with the CTC definitions, but Matt put me right with that over > on the Hercules-390 list. > > In order to use the ftp method for download and configuration, I had to > create a non-empty /etc/resolv.conf with my ISP's DNS servers specified.
And did you use a local gateway that resides on a *nix machine? Possibly on an appliance that supports NAT? > > After that, I proceeded to run the Debian configuration from a telnet > login, and got the following error when I told the configuration to check > for security updates: > > 0% [Connecting to 192.168.0.1 (198.168.0.1)] > Err http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages > Could not connect to 192.168.0.1:3128 (192.168.0.1), connection timed out > ... Looks like the connection swapped out protocols on you. > Failed to fetch > http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-s390/Packag > es Could not connect to 192.168.0.1:3128 (192.168.0.1), connection > timed out Well, IANA defines 192.168.x.x as a non-routable Internet subnet so you need to be going through a proxy or NAT gateway to get a connection to the world (with that address anyway). If there are available legal IP addresses I would suggest that you use one or try a passive connection (easy enough to do - use the PASV command with an ftp client). > > There were other errors following, all in the same pattern. What do I need > to do to correct this? Please tell me what config files (from which > system, base or Debian) you need to see to help me resolve this and I'll > send them out. > > I ignored the timeout errors and continued the configuration process. Then > I used tasksel to select a C/C++ development environment, plus tcl and TeX. > After everything downloaded, configuration proceeded with only a few > hitches. I got these errors during configuration: > > Errors were encountered while processing: > cxref > xemacs21-support > xemacs21-bin > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the > packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors > or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors > above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again > Press enter to continue. These look like the OS reporting that it failed to install certain deb packages. I think the greater problem in the connection failing - solve it and the rest will likely work. > > I didn't see any other errors during configuration, but I wasn't looking at > it the entire 6 hours. Where do I look up what these errors were so they > can be corrected? > > TIA for any help, info, RTFM, etc. you can provide. > > Peter Hope that helps! Cheers, Steve
