Hi, I am a linux newbie and am attempting my first real Linux installation from scratch. I have only the first cd of Debian woody dist and have managed to install a very basic system from this including X.
I am behind the firewall of my University. There exists an archive with the full resource of Debian behind the firewall that I would like to get access to using apt-get inorder to complete a full package installation of my system. I have configured my ethernet card and DNS lookup successfully and the file structure of the ftp site listed in my sources.list is correct. My sources.list looks like: ----- deb ftp://archive.sun.ac.za/debian/non-US woody/non-US main non-free deb ftp://archive.sun.ac.za/debian woody main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://archive.sun.ac.za/debian woody main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://archive.sun.ac.za/debian/non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free ---- When I run apt-get update I get partial success with the following result: ---- Err ftp: woody/non-US/main Packages Unable to connect to ftp: Err ftp: woody/non-US/main Release Unable to connect to ftp: Err ftp: woody/non-US/non-free Packages Unable to connect to ftp: Err ftp: woody/non-US/non-free Release Unable to connect to ftp: Get:1 ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/main Packages [1776kB] Err ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/main Packages Data socket timed out Get:2 ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/main Release [93B] Get:3 ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/contrib Packages [49.2kB] Get:4 ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/contrib Release [96B] Get:5 ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/non-free Packages [65.4kB] Get:6 ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/non-free Release [97B] Get:7 ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/main Sources [729kB] Err ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/main Sources Data socket timed out Get:8 ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/main Release [95B] Get:9 ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/contrib Sources [22.4kB] Get:10 ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/contrib Release [98B] Get:11 ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/non-free Sources [28.4kB] Get:12 ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/non-free Release [99B] Get:13 ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/non-US/main Sources [18.8kB] Get:14 ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/non-US/main Release [102B] Get:15 ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/non-US/contrib Sources [579B] Get:16 ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/non-US/contrib Release [105B] Get:17 ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/non-US/non-free Sources [971B] Get:18 ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/non-US/non-free Release [106B] Fetched 187kB in 17m20s (180B/s) Failed to fetch ftp:///archive.sun.ac.za/debian/non-US/dists/woody/non-US/main/binary-i386/Packages Unable to connect to ftp: Failed to fetch ftp:///archive.sun.ac.za/debian/non-US/dists/woody/non-US/main/binary-i386/Release Unable to connect to ftp: Failed to fetch ftp:///archive.sun.ac.za/debian/non-US/dists/woody/non-US/non-free/binary-i386/Packages Unable to connect to ftp: Failed to fetch ftp:///archive.sun.ac.za/debian/non-US/dists/woody/non-US/non-free/binary-i386/Release Unable to connect to ftp: Failed to fetch ftp://archive.sun.ac.za/debian/dists/woody/main/source/Sources Data socket timed out Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp: woody/non-US/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_archive.sun.ac.za_debian_non-US_dists_woody_non-US_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp: woody/non-US/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_archive.sun.ac.za_debian_non-US_dists_woody_non-US_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.sun.ac.za_debian_dists_woody_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp: woody/non-US/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_archive.sun.ac.za_debian_non-US_dists_woody_non-US_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp: woody/non-US/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_archive.sun.ac.za_debian_non-US_dists_woody_non-US_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.sun.ac.za_debian_dists_woody_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones usedinstead. ---- Then when I attempt an apt-get install I get the following which predictably isnt a pretty result: ---- Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp: woody/non-US/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_archive.sun.ac.za_debian_non-US_dists_woody_non-US_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp: woody/non-US/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_archive.sun.ac.za_debian_non-US_dists_woody_non-US_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.sun.ac.za_debian_dists_woody_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.sun.ac.za_debian_dists_woody_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://archive.sun.ac.za woody/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.sun.ac.za_debian_dists_woody_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp: woody/non-US/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_archive.sun.ac.za_debian_non-US_dists_woody_non-US_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) ---- Anyone got any suggetions how to reslove this? 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