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Posted: June 08 2005,23:11 QUOTE
I can't get dsl-usbinstall to work thru a proxy.

Normally it tries to connect to ibiblio.org, which doesn't work since it's not configured to use a proxy.

Connecting to www.ibiblio.org[152.2.210.80]:80
wget: Unable to connect to remote host (152.2.210.80): Connection refused
Error while trying to fetch the USB install kit.

I can't edit dsl-usbinstall or wgetrc in their home directories, I get a "read only file system" error. So I copied the dsl-usbinstall file to /home and added the --proxy=on option to the wget line, and ran "export http_proxy=http://<proxy_addr>:80".

But when I run /home/dsl-usbinstall, it looks like it tried to download the pendrive file from the proxy itself:

Connecting to <proxy_addr>[<proxy_addr>]:80
wget: server returned error 404: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Error while trying to fetch the USB install kit.

What's the secret to getting this to work?

--Thanks! LloydM
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Posted: June 09 2005,22:43 QUOTE
Do you really need it to install via proxy?  The dsl-usbinstall script simply looks for a file called "frugal_usb.tar.gz", which you may be able to download through that proxy via Windows.  Once you have that file downloaded to your hard disk, then all you have to do is boot DSL, mount that hard disk, copy the file from the hard disk to /home/dsl, cd to /home/dsl, and run the dsl-usbinstall.
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Posted: June 10 2005,02:17 QUOTE
I had tried that - I specified the proxy in Firefox and downloaded the current frugal_usb.tar.gz file to /home/dsl. But I still get the same error when I run dsl-usbinstall or Apps>Tools>Install to USB Pendrive. Do I need to gunzip the file or do anything else besides just put it in /home/dsl?
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Posted: June 10 2005,13:40 QUOTE
It seems the files are now called

pendrive_usb.tar.gz OR
pendrive_hdd.tar.gz

I've had the same problem downloaded those through firefox inside DSL from CD and now it's running :D :D
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LloydM
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Posted: June 10 2005,18:53 QUOTE
Yay, with those pendrive files it works. Thanks!!!
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