Re: ftp via proxy server, for dselect
> > 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
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