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Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm




On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:

>      The obvious question (please don't take offense) is: Did you
> start ppp before entering dselect?  dselect, or rather dpkg-ftp, will
> attempt to make an ftp connection, but assumes that a ppp connection
> is up.  It does not check, AFAIK, to see if there is such a connection.
> 
> Bob 
> 
> On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote:
> >
> > Problem - dselect refuses to connect by ftp to sites. To be more precise,
> >
> > Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org ...
> > FTP ERROR
> 
> 
Quick answer is yes, I started ppp.

i.b.


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