John Many thanks. I'm home free now.
I would have rtfm'd the man pages as is suggested by the dselect apt methond, only it is a catch 22: I don't have man pages because I can't install, because I dont have the information in the man pages.... This helps, thanks. All: there should be man pages in the base package -- if not full man pages, and binaries, then certainly enough information that how to specify an ftp login and password is clear. --David Debian GNU/Linux: Because reboots are for hardware and kernel upgrades. On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, David B. Teague wrote: > > > Would some kind soul tell me how to specify an ftp login > > and password when using dselect, apt-ftp access -- so I > > can use this access method with my local archive. > > Hm, it should be > > ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/debian > > Read the sources.list man page, it says exactly. > > Jason >
