howdy guys, my little saga continues. using cftp, I'm able to access my website's remote directory, but while connected, can still not use apt-get to build a system.
Can I just ftp packages to some directory on my machine, then dselect them from there? can't think of how to say this, but how do you associate an ip address with a name? getting to my website I used the dotted quad.. (how could I specify debian's ftp address? using ftp://us.debian.org/debian results in a hostname lookup failure) also, I don't have mail set up yet, so how could I give it to debian's ftp site as a password? and can I ftp sets of packages? (not using the normal procedures of apt and dselect, just an ftp client?) working on it... -tf
