This one time, at band camp, santmyer said: > Hi, > > I installed a minimal Debian linux and booted it. > It seems to boot OK and I can use what has been > installed. I think I set up PPP correctly. When I > use the pon command, I hear the usual dialup via > my modem. > > Now I want to download some packages from the > internet. When I run apt-get I get the error message > "Failed to fetch > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages > could not resolve http.us.debian.org". > > I can't access this site. Do you know what might be wrong? > Please help me if you can. > > Thanks, > > Joe > This sounds more like a DNS problem - have you checked that other things work? Try the usual - ping debian.org, etc. Check your /etc/resolv.conf after dialing up - it should have some entries placed there by ppp. Also try this on debian-user, as you're likely to get a lot of help from that list.
HTH,
Steve
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