Re: Kernel Upgrade Help needed!

From: Chadley Wilson (chadley_at_pinteq.co.za)
Date: 03/11/04

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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 02:10:24 +0200

    On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 01:28, Steve Searle wrote:
    > Around 11:09pm on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 (UK time), Chadley Wilson scrawled:
    >
    > > Since I am behind a firwall I will never get to use apt or yum or
    > > UP2date working [I dont know why]. Never could get them working and
    >
    > Whose firewall - your own, a coporate one, or what? What type is it.
    > Who administers it?
    >
    > Cheers
    >
    > Steve
    It is a corporate firewall and ftp access is denied but for some reason
    UP2date just hangs when I run it and I have tried apt and yum but I have
    no clue as to what I am doing there I just get errors relating to
    packages I Try downloading. nothing works for me I assume it is our
    firewall.

    Chad 

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