On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 01:47:09PM +0100, Thomas Sjölin wrote: > Hello Stephen > > On 01-Feb-09, you wrote: > > >> Since I've had a go at NetBSD in between I had removed my previous woody > >> installation and now that I tried to install it again I found that I > >> couldn't get any packages through netinstall. > > > > Well woody has certainly been migrated to http://archive.debian.org/. > > So far so good but it seems like I can't get it quite right. > > When running base-config I enter the domain and path but it still adds > /stable.... so it doesn't find any packages. What file holds that > information so I can edit that? Correct, there is no stable on archive. You should try woody or sarge by name instead of stable. > Also, manually editing sources.list didn't quite do the trick either. Don't > know quite how to enter the information correctly so apt-get finds the > files it needs. > > Any hints are appreciated! I believe woody used boot-floppies and I'm trying hard *not* to remember how boot-floppies worked. ;) The sarge installer was debian-installer--based, which means you should be able to point at a random mirror. I think non-US died with etch. In any case, it's also on archive. hth, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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