On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 03:27:10PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
However, the release you're running (Debian 6 squeeze) went into limited lTS in 2014 and complete end of life in 2016. Packages for it don't exist any more on the regular Debian mirrors and would have to be obtained from archive.debian.net or a mirror of it.
Worse than that, if this is the original netgear "firmware", I have no idea how close to a normal debian system it ever was, what the actual hardware is, or whether that hardware is supported by debian itself (vs only with netgear modifications). A quick google suggests that the netgear modifications are extensive enough that the device would no longer have its original functionality, but I don't know if it would be possible to turn it into a generic server rather than a "netgear duo appliance".
As a general matter, to upgrade this it would be necessary to do an upgrade to each intermediate release, so from squeeze to wheezy to jessie to stretch to buster to bullseye to bookworm. Most of those are long since out of support, though available via archive.debian.org. *If* the underlying hardware works with a normal debian, this is possible (though tedious) but there are some gotchas around things like long-since-expired signatures which need to be manually overriden. I would probably recommend not going down this route unless you have a great deal of experience with debian on non-standard hardware. There may be resources available from other netgear users which could help you upgrade, but you'd need to search for those outside of debian itself (maybe on netgear forums or such). If there were some recipie for a fresh install vs a very long upgrade path, your goals would probably be more achievable.
