David Meyer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I FINALLY got Debian to install cleanly on my laptop (which I was pretty proud of) using the 3.0r2 CD (#1 only), skipping dselect (as advised by most of you) and getting the rest off the web. I was using the 2.2 kernel (by accident) so once I got things up and running, I decided to reinstall using the bf24 option and the 2.4 kernel. Things were going nicely, but when I went to connect to the mirror to download the updates, it failed. Said it couldn't connect. That was behind our firewall (yes, I put in the correct authentication info) so I did the http://user:pass@proxy:port and got the same thing. So I tried again at home with no proxy, and the same thing happened. This morning, I burned a new CD from a different source and the same thing happened.
>
> So...do I need to install a different way? If so, what is recommended? Should I just download all the CD's? I thought it might be my hardware except this laptop is only one year old, and the older 2.2 kernel install worked just fine.
>
> Any advice would be apprecited.
You may set this in your /etc/apt/apt.conf file:
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://user:pass@proxy:port/";
or, merely use this trick instead:
# export http_proxy=http://user:pass@proxy:port
# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade
The "http_proxy" environment variable is used by wget, lynx, and a large
number of other OpenSource tools.
In fact, it's rather neat to update packages on a "protected" firewalled
server somewhere via an SSH tunnel:
workstation$ ssh -R 8080:{proxy}:{port} root@protectedserver
protectedserver# export http_proxy=http://user:pass@localhost:8080
protectedserver# apt-get update
protectedserver# apt-get dist-upgrade
where {proxy}:{port} is the hostname and port number of an http proxy
reachable from your workstation.
Enjoy!
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