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new to the list, grr -> SIU proxy



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 =(
  - 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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