On 18/10/02 Jacques Kotze did speaketh:
> 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
> ----
Does your university permit ftp and/or http through the firewall? Try
changing from ftp to http and see if it works.
Mike
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