Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote: > > try reinstalling the dpkg-ftp package is the only thing i can think > > of. > > > > are you behind a firewall of any kind? check your configuration of > > dpkg-ftp too... > > > > BTW, which version of the upgrade script did you run? > Craig, I tried reinst

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote: [ snip! ] : : I too have been having trouble connecting to ftp.us.debian.org. : When I try to ftp there, I get the following: : : Connected to santanni.cc.gatech.edu. : 220 santanni.cc.gatech.edu FTP server (Version wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-15](1) Tue Oct 7 12

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-15 Thread Adam Klein
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 09:39:24PM -0600, IBMackey wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > > > The obvious question (please don't take offense) is: Did you > > start ppp before entering dselect? dselect, or rather dpkg-ftp, will > > attempt to make an ftp connection,

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-15 Thread IBMackey
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: > > i've cc-ed my reply to debian-user as you're more likely to get an answer > from there. i don't use the ftp install method at all. > > On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote: > > > Tried your script. Being the newbie chicken that I am, I entered th

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-15 Thread IBMackey
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > The obvious question (please don't take offense) is: Did you > start ppp before entering dselect? dselect, or rather dpkg-ftp, will > attempt to make an ftp connection, but assumes that a ppp connection > is up. It does not check, AFAIK, to

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-14 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
The obvious question (please don't take offense) is: Did you start ppp before entering dselect? dselect, or rather dpkg-ftp, will attempt to make an ftp connection, but assumes that a ppp connection is up. It does not check, AFAIK, to see if there is such a connection. Bob On Wed, 14 Jan

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-14 Thread Craig Sanders
i've cc-ed my reply to debian-user as you're more likely to get an answer from there. i don't use the ftp install method at all. On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote: > Tried your script. Being the newbie chicken that I am, I entered the > commands on the command line to make sure of spelling a