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Greetings,
Just wanted to say im new to the
list and plan on attending the carbondale meetings in the future, stumbled upon
your site (silug.org) while one of SIU's many unscheduled downtimes allowed me
to only view links from the internal network for 3 hours. Anyways, i do
have a slight question about SIU's campus proxy.... here goes.
A little background in my linux use, i started at
or around Slackware 3.6 / Redhat 4.2 era, the kernel was still pretty geared to
low end pentium machines and i was truely a clueless sophmore at
highschool. I lived off of installing from hdd partitions/cd mounts for
the couple years i used Slackware 3.6 on my 486 (Was the only dist that really
worked to its max potential). Over the years i had installed in different
methods for friends (redhat mostly, why give them something they wont
understand, and why be so hard on myself?) and i got used to FTP install's from
here since all these kids had cable modems!~~ anyways, long story longer i
left the linux community of northwest chicago suburbs area, and dove headfirst
into the Everquest community never to be seen again...
I'm coming back into the linux world, and i am told
for an FTP install to go straight for Gentoo Linux since it has a very BSD'esque
package install system ***mmm***, but being constrained to the SIU(c) campus i
am, (as anyone on campus will attest to) i will need to break through this POS
proxy server they have set up, and the only way i've been able to do this is
through an http client. I have been told i can telnet into port 80 and
login from there, but see image below to see what that yeilds.
Things i have done:
- Made sure the eth0 comes up with an IP
(dhcp gives it one just perfectly, and i am able to ping the proxy
server)
- telnet into port 80 of the proxy server
----- ERROR see http://www.reject.org/fatman/proxy.jpg
- download lynx on mounted partition in
another operating system --- ERROR = not enough space on install mount
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- added my proxy server using some RSYNC_~~~
="hostname:port" (~~~'s are things i cant remember) to /etc/make.conf (wasnt
there before but i made one)
what i want to do:
Confirm i can access gentoo's
ftps located offsight of SIU's campus via breaking out of the Proxy during a pre
install of gentoo's packages so that from there i can get the wheels in motion
and do a clean wipe of my other partitions and get started on my
way.
admin - if this doesnt post on the discussion board
please just ignore it, i was under the impression sending this here would post,
if it does *blush*
Joel
Sophmore SIUC
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