On 20120620_121804, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Paul E. Condon [2012-06-20 02:55:41 -0600] wrote: > > > On 20120620_081652, didier gaumet wrote: > >> Your CD, being from the "lenny=stable" era, probably attempts to > >> access "stable" release but it does not exists on an archive > >> repository. Replacing "stable" by "lenny" could do the trick > > > This is what must be happening. And I have no way to edit an iso image > > to do the replacement, so I can't use the archive to get a working > > debian installation on the box and then dist-upgrade to something more > > modern. > > Doesn't the expert install method allow editing sources.list? > (I'm not sure.)
It allows selecting a mirror from a long list of existing mirrors and typing in the name of an unlisted mirror, but not editing a line in sources.list format. In this case the built in name on the CD is surely 'stable' and *not* 'lenny', as support or named releases was not yet fully implemented back then. Didier reminded me of that. I think this fact pretty is a show stopper for what I was hoping to do. I am rethinking my goals and objectives today. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120620200754.ga11...@big.lan.gnu
