FTP install using proxy ?

2002-01-07 Thread François
Hello, Is there any way to use a proxy with apt-... commands ? Thanks a lot François

Re: FTP install using proxy ?

2002-01-07 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
François Chenais wrote: Hello, Is there any way to use a proxy with apt-... commands ? Thanks a lot François i wrote this line in my apt.conf: Acquire::http::Proxy http://proxy.mycompany.com:8080;; the same thing (with obvious changes) should apply to

Re: Woody FTP Install?!

2001-11-26 Thread Brian Clark
Hi Colin, @ 7:20:35 PM on 11/25/2001, Colin Watson wrote: In order to do an FTP install for woody, I need the baseX.tgz or the baseX.bin files. Only the drivers, root, and rescue images are available (no base install files): base*.tgz files are no longer used for woody. Instead, base

Woody FTP Install?!

2001-11-25 Thread Brian Clark
Err, alright, so I figure out everything will be fine with my hardware if I stick with woody, but I get ready to install and what?! No FTP install for woody? What in the world? So I'm going to have to install potato and then dist-upgrade? Over dialup? :-) If I do have to install stable

Re: Woody FTP Install?!

2001-11-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:56:28AM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: Err, alright, so I figure out everything will be fine with my hardware if I stick with woody, but I get ready to install and what?! No FTP install for woody? What in the world? Hmm? There should be no problem with FTP. What exactly

Re: Woody FTP Install?!

2001-11-25 Thread Brian Clark
Hi Colin, @ 12:55:03 PM on 11/25/2001, Colin Watson wrote: Err, alright, so I figure out everything will be fine with my hardware if I stick with woody, but I get ready to install and what?! No FTP install for woody? What in the world? Hmm? There should be no problem with FTP. What exactly

Re: Woody FTP Install?!

2001-11-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 01:58:26PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: @ 12:55:03 PM on 11/25/2001, Colin Watson wrote: Hmm? There should be no problem with FTP. What exactly are you looking for? In order to do an FTP install for woody, I need the baseX.tgz or the baseX.bin files. Only the drivers

ftp-install-testing

2001-02-28 Thread Dale Kosan
Thanks to all who replied about the apt question. I was just wondering, is there a way to do a testing install over ftp? I would like to set-up another box and go this route.Would I just go to the testing directory and download some floppy images? Which ones? What url would I point the install

Re: ftp-install-testing

2001-02-28 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:14:02AM -0500, Dale Kosan wrote: Thanks to all who replied about the apt question. I was just wondering, is there a way to do a testing install over ftp? I would like to set-up another box and go this route.Would I just go to the testing directory and download

instructions to start up ftp install with pcmcia NIC

2000-11-27 Thread Slin Lee
I need some help here. I'm trying to install potato (or any debian) on to my laptop that has a pcmcia ethernet card that i know works under linux (used it with mandrake) are there any special things i need to be doing/special disks (rescue/root) to get the install to detect my

Re: How do I do an ftp install?

2000-10-24 Thread jeff
easily download and install anything you want. -jeff On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 08:04:03PM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: I would be very grateful for any pointers to doing an ftp install of Debian - I have a PCI ISDN card (AVM) BTW so this would probably complicate matters. I can't find any

How do I do an ftp install?

2000-10-21 Thread Phillip Deackes
I would be very grateful for any pointers to doing an ftp install of Debian - I have a PCI ISDN card (AVM) BTW so this would probably complicate matters. I can't find any documentaion detailing what I would have to do so a reference to a web page or other source of info would be gratefully

Re: FW: FTP Install

1999-09-02 Thread Ookhoi
. Groetjes, Ookhoi -Original Message- From: Cory Rudder Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 12:13 To: 'Patrick Olson' Subject: RE: FTP Install Thanks for your response, For the info of everyone it seems that FTP install capabilities are not yet

Re: FW: FTP Install

1999-09-01 Thread Cormac McGuinness
Thanks for your response, For the info of everyone it seems that FTP install capabilities are not yet a reality for debian. ^^^ ?? FYI I originally came to use Debian because at the time it was the _only_ distribution that I

FW: FTP Install

1999-08-31 Thread Cory Rudder
-Original Message- From: Cory Rudder Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 12:13 To: 'Patrick Olson' Subject:RE: FTP Install Thanks for your response, For the info of everyone it seems that FTP install capabilities are not yet a reality for debian. In my experience

RE: FTP Install

1999-08-31 Thread Patrick Olson
Thanks for your response, For the info of everyone it seems that FTP install capabilities are not yet a reality for debian. In my experience installing debian is no longer a reality. I have in my possession three different debian CD's. One I created on the ftp site, one from cheap bytes

Re: FW: FTP Install

1999-08-31 Thread IEN
Thanks for your response, For the info of everyone it seems that FTP install capabilities are not yet a reality for debian. Well, mas... I must admit I got into the thread just now, so I may be a little repetitive.. The forst time I installed Linux in my life was when I put Debian in my PC

Re: FW: FTP Install

1999-08-31 Thread Nathan Duehr
: -Original Message- From: Cory Rudder Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 12:13 To: 'Patrick Olson' Subject: RE: FTP Install Thanks for your response, For the info of everyone it seems that FTP install capabilities are not yet a reality for debian. In my experience

ftp install base system?

1999-08-26 Thread Mark Wagnon
Is it possible to install the base system via ftp? I'm trying to install on a system without a CD-ROM drive (and each one I've tried to install won't work for some reason), and floppies aren't cutting it. I would think that it would be possible since the installer is prompted to set up the network

FTP Install

1999-08-23 Thread Cory Rudder
I'm a debian newbie and I would like to ftp install a stable version of debian what file do I need to download to do this? Also recommendations on different versions would be helpful. Thanks.

How do I do an ftp install?

1999-04-22 Thread Chris Gray
I got sold on Debian after reading today's discussion on slashdot. However, there doesn't seem to be anything in the Debian web site about how one goes about installing from ftp. It only tells me that it is possible. So what disk images, etc. do I need? Thank you in advance, Chris Gray

Re: How do I do an ftp install?

1999-04-22 Thread dyer
Chris Gray wrote: I got sold on Debian after reading today's discussion on slashdot. However, there doesn't seem to be anything in the Debian web site about how one goes about installing from ftp. It only tells me that it is possible. So what disk images, etc. do I need? Thank you in

Re: How do I do an ftp install?

1999-04-22 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 21 Apr, Chris Gray wrote about How do I do an ftp install? I got sold on Debian after reading today's discussion on slashdot. However, there doesn't seem to be anything in the Debian web site about how one goes about installing from ftp. It only tells me that it is possible. So what

Re: How do I do an ftp install?

1999-04-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
(I assume you can figure out what to do if you've got a 1.2M floppy drive instead of a 1.44M drive ...) You don't need the base disks if you have a CD (but then why do an ftp install?) or you know of an NFS server from which you can install the base package. Using the above disks you install

FTP Install

1999-03-09 Thread Chuck Lackey
Hi All! I'm trying to install via FTP with dselect. I keep getting a Packages file not found error, but I can see the file in the directory. any ideas? Thanks! -- Chuck Lackey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Macon, Ga.

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-25 Thread Dale E. Martin
I had trouble with network.opts because for one thing, network address is unknown to me, the way it is used there. I will have to look at the Networking HOWTO and see if I can make any sense of it. It's the same as NETWORK in /etc/init.d/network, right? That's how I have it and it seems to

nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
I don't know how to get NFS working on Debian though I used it on OpenLinux. I tried FTP and that failed too, and now I find that I am unable to get my network card on the Laptop to work. The indicator is on but still, it is dead. -- Andrew

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Dale E. Martin
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know how to get NFS working on Debian though I used it on OpenLinux. I tried FTP and that failed too, and now I find that I am unable to get my network card on the Laptop to work. The indicator is on but still, it is dead. If you run ifconfig as

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know how to get NFS working on Debian though I used it on OpenLinux. I tried FTP and that failed too, and now I find that I am unable to get my network card on the Laptop to work. The indicator is on but still,

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Dale E. Martin
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It says the card is UP and route shows normal, but they are lying. Can you ping a host on your network? Does the light on the card blink? Why do think it's lying? -- +- pgp key available --+ | Dale E. Martin |

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It says the card is UP and route shows normal, but they are lying. Can you ping a host on your network? Does the light on the card blink? Why do think it's lying? dmesg shows that the network card is not recognized

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It says the card is UP and route shows normal, but they are lying. Can you ping a host on your network? Does the light on the card blink? Why do think it's lying? Also, I can ping localhost but that is all. -- Andrew

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote: On 23 Feb 1999, Dale E. Martin wrote: Can you ping a host on your network? Does the light on the card blink? Why do think it's lying? I wonder if he went through modconf and installed the driver for the card. I do not specifically recall seeing

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Mark Ciciretti
Try running '/etc/init.d/network start' after the PCMCIA services are started. IIRC this is what I had to do when I installed Debian on a friend's laptop. On 24-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: On 24-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It says the card is UP and route

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Mark Ciciretti wrote: Try running '/etc/init.d/network start' after the PCMCIA services are started. IIRC this is what I had to do when I installed Debian on a friend's laptop. ummm.. I am not sure, but I think that worked. I am pinging the laptop from here now and it did not

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Dale E. Martin
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 24-Feb-99 Mark Ciciretti wrote: Try running '/etc/init.d/network start' after the PCMCIA services are started. IIRC this is what I had to do when I installed Debian on a friend's laptop. ummm.. I am not sure, but I think that worked. I am

ftp install with funky NIC

1998-12-11 Thread Henry Kingman
Hey all, I'm attempting to install Debian via ftp on a Micron PII-267 but I can't seem to get ethernet working. The machine's motherboard is a PD440FX, and the NIC is an Intel 82557C-based Ethernet PCI 10/100. I think that's one of those ones that's right on the motherboard and thus part of

Q: FTP install behind Netscape-proxy firewall

1998-09-29 Thread WERNER Péter
Hi! I tried FTP install beind a firewall. dselect can't connect to ftp.debian.org but I can do it by hand. Does anyone have any experience? I have to use FTP-username@FW-username FTP-password@FW-password with our firewall. WP

FTP install problem

1998-08-30 Thread Michael Montz
I've got the initial part of the installation done. The system boots just fine. When I run dselect, choose access, then ftp, the following error is returned: Query/setup script was terminated by a signal:segmentation fault. I've also chosen a mounted filesystem and received the same

ftp install

1998-08-29 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, I am trying to install hamm on my laptop at work which is on a network. I have installed it to the point where I am using dselect to choose ftp for my method of installation. I can connect to the ftp site but seconds later it says ftp disconnect and then it just sits there. I can ftp into

Re: ftp install

1998-05-23 Thread Bob Hilliard
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 22 May 1998 13:08:50 -0700, Richard Sevenich wrote: I am considering a fresh install of hamm from the floppy base diskettes etc. Does this give me network access and ftp so I can then complete the installation with dselect's ftp method? The

ftp install

1998-05-22 Thread Richard Sevenich
I am considering a fresh install of hamm from the floppy base diskettes etc. Does this give me network access and ftp so I can then complete the installation with dselect's ftp method? TIA Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: ftp install

1998-05-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 22 May 1998 13:08:50 -0700, Richard Sevenich wrote: I am considering a fresh install of hamm from the floppy base diskettes etc. Does this give me network access and ftp so I can then complete the installation with dselect's ftp method? The floppies, along with the base2_0.tgz (or

Re: ftp install

1998-05-22 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Fri, 22 May 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: On Fri, 22 May 1998 13:08:50 -0700, Richard Sevenich wrote: I am considering a fresh install of hamm from the floppy base diskettes etc. Does this give me network access and ftp so I can then complete the installation with dselect's ftp method?

FTP install

1997-12-15 Thread Dominique Jacquel
to install it with dselect through FTP and I have this problem. If I select hamm or unstable from the /debian directory, dselect can't find packages.gz. Now if I try from /debian/dists/unstable .. deselect finds the packages but later on tries can't get the .deb ... argh ... The FTP install

Re: FTP install

1997-12-15 Thread Joost Kooij
on tries can't get the .deb ... argh ... The FTP install works fine with Bo though!! These are the settings that I use; I'm behind a firewall too, so don't get distracted by the passive setting and the username and such. You just want to use the $distribs settings. cat /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp

Re: FTP install ... thanks

1997-12-15 Thread Dominique Jacquel
hey cheers ... that should help a lot ... I'll try that tomorrow! good day or night .. depending where you are ;-) *-* | Dominique Jacquel http://www.mech.ed.ac.uk/~dom | | Ph.D. student mailto:[EMAIL

Dselect timeout during FTP install.

1997-07-11 Thread Chris Brown
I just set up a new machine with 1.3 and am having a bit of a problem. Once the base was installed I went to do an FTP install of the rest of the sustem. When I go to do anything that requites attaching to an ftp server the thing times out. We have just gotten our new class C and don't

Debian Ftp Install, PPP problems

1997-06-01 Thread Dustin Withers
I've been using Linux for sometime now and have had the internet working under Slackware I then switched over to debian and was goin' to do the FTP install, I've got all the networking stuff configured correctly but when I run pon it dials out and logs me in and then hangs up after a couple

Re: Debian Ftp Install, PPP problems

1997-06-01 Thread Pavel Galynin
hello, Dustin Withers wrote: I've been using Linux for sometime now and have had the internet working under Slackware I then switched over to debian and was goin' to do the FTP install, I've got all the networking stuff configured correctly but when I run pon it dials out and logs me

Re: ftp install problem

1997-05-26 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: /usr/sbin/pppd -d connect 'chat \ AT\C1\D2\F2%G1%E0X4M0L0DTphone-number-deleted \ CONNECT ogin: login-deleted word: password-deleted' \ /dev/cua2 defaultroute -detach connect /etc/ppp/ppp-connect /dev/cua1

ftp install problem

1997-05-23 Thread Pavel Galynin
hello world, i am currently trying to install debian linux. i edited ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out after rtfming for some time, but it still doesn't work. i go into dselect, try to connect to ftp.debian.org and it gives me a bad name error. i figured that i probably need to connect to my

Re: ftp install problem

1997-05-23 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 22 May 1997, Pavel Galynin wrote: hello world, i am currently trying to install debian linux. i edited ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out after rtfming for some time, but it still doesn't work. i go into dselect, try to connect to ftp.debian.org and it gives me a bad name error. i

Re: ftp install problem

1997-05-23 Thread Pavel Galynin
hello Dale Scheetz wrote: On Thu, 22 May 1997, Pavel Galynin wrote: hello world, i am currently trying to install debian linux. i edited ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out after rtfming for some time, but it still doesn't work. i go into dselect, try to connect to ftp.debian.org

Re: ftp install problem

1997-05-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
Ditto what Dale says re: the output from pppd ... are you actually running pppd by hand or using the debian pon script? I've found that the scripts work quite well for me ... I suppose it depends on your ISP. Also, even if you are connected via PPP, you still need to configure DNS resolution.

Re: ftp install problem

1997-05-23 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Pavel Galynin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, it was just a series of odd ascii characters. A lot of } characters in it, per chance? That would be a PPP packet that should have been directed to your modem, not the console. This indicates the wrong arguments to pppd. Just how did you connect? Give

Re: ftp install problem

1997-05-23 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 22 May 1997, Pavel Galynin wrote: Pentium 200 Mhz, 2 x 3.1 GB WD hdds, 32 mb ram, 33.6 modem on com2. I edited the ppp files (i can send em if you need em) and tried to ftp with dselect without doing anything to connect to my isp, assming that dselect would spawn pppd and make it

Re: ftp install problem

1997-05-23 Thread Benjamin White, M.D.
At 7:15 AM 5/22/97, Pavel Galynin wrote: hello world, i am currently trying to install debian linux. i edited ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out after rtfming for some time, but it still doesn't work. i go into dselect, try to connect to ftp.debian.org and it gives me a bad name error. i figured

FTP install and PPP/SLIP

1997-01-10 Thread Troy M. Lubbers
Alright, I've seen this question several times. Once before I was the one asking it. But I have yet to get an answer to it. I THINK that I want to install Debian. Partially because the option of installing off of an FTP server sounds very enticing, but I have a SLIP/PPP connection. Now does the

Re: FTP install and PPP/SLIP

1997-01-10 Thread Igor Grobman
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Troy M. Lubbers wrote: Alright, I've seen this question several times. Once before I was the one asking it. But I have yet to get an answer to it. I THINK that I want to install Debian. Partially because the option of installing off of an FTP server sounds very

Re: FTP install and PPP/SLIP

1997-01-10 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Troy M. Lubbers wrote: Alright, I've seen this question several times. Once before I was the one asking it. But I have yet to get an answer to it. I THINK that I want to install Debian. Partially because the option of installing off of an FTP server sounds very

Re: ftp-install problem in Debian 1.11

1996-06-15 Thread Bruce Perens
I added 5 more perl files, and the next boot floppy set should run dpkg-ftp correctly. Thanks Bruce

ftp-install problem in Debian 1.11

1996-06-14 Thread David C Winters
. I'm using 1.11 because of the ftp-install option; my machine doesn't have a CD-ROM drive, nor do I have access to NFS servers, and I'd prefer to install from floppy if at all possible. (I did a test install of 0.93r6 yesterday, and didn't see this option there.) When trying to choose