On 18/10/02 Jacques Kotze did speaketh: > I am behind the firewall of my University. There exists an archive with > the full resource of Debian behind the firewall that I would like to get > access to using apt-get inorder to complete a full package installation > of my system. > > I have configured my ethernet card and DNS lookup successfully and the > file structure of the ftp site listed in my sources.list is correct. > > My sources.list looks like: > ----- > deb ftp://archive.sun.ac.za/debian/non-US woody/non-US main non-free > deb ftp://archive.sun.ac.za/debian woody main contrib non-free > deb-src ftp://archive.sun.ac.za/debian woody main contrib non-free > deb-src ftp://archive.sun.ac.za/debian/non-US woody/non-US main contrib > non-free > ----
Does your university permit ftp and/or http through the firewall? Try
changing from ftp to http and see if it works.
Mike
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