----- Original Message ----- From: Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ron Stordahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 12:21 AM Subject: Re: more net install
: : On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Ron Stordahl wrote: : : > I had exactly the same problem, yet I knew my network connection was : > working, and I could go to another machine (MS Explorer/Win98) and get to : > those http addresses just fine. I asked our network guy and he said the : > problem was that our proxy server was in the way, that I should try ftp : > instead of http, but it that didn't work he would remove my address from : > being intercepted by the proxy server. : : Do you just need to specify the proxy server address? Something like : : export http_proxy="http://myproxy:3128/"; : apt-get ... : : Jason : : Jason: I was running 'apt' from dselect where it asks you for network addresses to get the downloads from. Arn't you trying to install Debian using the 2 binary CD's? If you do that I don't see where the opportunity to enter what you suggest will present itself. Maybe we are talking about 2 different things. Ron
