Re: more net install
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Could you please try to keep your lines less than 76 characters long? More
than that and it causes annoyances with the MUAs some of us use.
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, tf wrote:
> I'll try to be a bit more specific. I'm attempting to get a full
> system going from the base slink. I just got a modem the other day
> and got it to ping my isp, but running apt-get update produces
> (somthing close to) the following results:
>
> get http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages
> 0% [connecting to http.us.debian.org]
> error http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages
> could not open...
Is this the entire error? If not, quote some more ;) ...
Also, it could help if you send us your /etc/apt/sources.list file, to
make sure there's no typos there.
> so I'm connected, but apt can't get (no pun intended!) to the urls
> listed in the sources list. tried putting debian in /etc/hosts.allow,
> but that didn't do it.
Can you connect to them with lynx, or even telnet to port 80?
These two commands will let you test.
lynx http://www.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/contrib/
telnet http.us.debian.org 80
You shouldn't need to edit hosts.allow or hosts.deny to connect to other
computers, those files control who can connect to yours.
> any ideas? Given access to my computer, most of you guys could fix
> this in about 15 seconds.
If you get that desperate, there's ways to do that... I wouldn't recommend
it except as a last resort though.
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