Hi! Newbie here struggling with updating. And I never did get dselect to work consistently during the bo installation. Anyway:
I "manually" collected the packages demanded by autoup.sh and ran it. Now the readme says I need to update ALL installed packages. For that volume, it should be worth giving dselect a try. Apt-get wants proper URLs, but I have a proxy server on a Windows machine on the LAN, and the Linux box at this stage of the game staunchly refuses to see anything on the Internet, by name or by IP number (I've compared the route table and the network script and the ifconfig eth0 with other people's posts--I've been lurking--but to no avail). So: Is there a way I can get apt to do a proxy request to my local Windows proxy server, which has no trouble finding the Internet? Another angle: Using FTP access in dselect, can I tweak the paths in the get commands? dselect does proxy-ftp connections, but seems not to find hamm packages on the German mirrors (symbolic links not in place?)--it lets me choose the paths (which contain "/hamm/hamm/") when setting up ftp access, and gets the package lists all right, but then it uses other paths-- the default "/debian/dists/stable/binary-i386/.../"--when trying to get the pkgs themselves, and gets nothing. Or will I have to identify and get all these update packages by hand, i.e. without the benefit of apt or dselect? Or am I completely missing the easy way? Sorry about the confused sentences ... Thanks for your attention! Tony Tony Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. +49-3341-309 999 Fax +49-3341-309 998
