On Sat, 2015-05-23 at 09:21 +0200, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > Hi, > > Probably after some faulty misconfiguration I lost some lines in > /etc/apt/sources.list so I am not sure now what is the proper content of > it. In fact, I started to use squeeze a couple of years ago by > installing the first ten CDs of its release 6.0.1a and by time upgraded > to 6.0.10 and at some points I also added backports and squeeze-lts to > the sources list. However I am not sure now if the system is updated > properly, so would appreciate advices on the most appropriate content of > /etc/apt/sources.list See <https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using#Add_squeeze-lts_to_your_sources.list>. > Secondly, having in mind that squeeze-lts will be retired next February, > I've been thinking on upgrading this comp to wheezy. The main issue is > that is an old box (Celeron II 400 MHz, 224 meg RAM, most of the > internal cards are ISA, etc), so I wonder if it would accept the > upgrade. According to some websites, it seems that should be possible, > however I would like to hear advices on that. This machine is primarily > used as a firewall-router for the other two comps in the home LAN, and > it has an ISA dial-up modem Zoltrix and USB wifi connectivity on it, > Xfce, icedove, etc. All of that works with squeeze-lts although as > expected the comp is pretty slow. I wonder if upgrading to wheezy (or > wheezy-lts if available) would be feasible here, or I should look for > other options. Thank you. I don't see why it wouldn't still work, though it's likely to run slower again. Maybe time for new hardware? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If more than one person is responsible for a bug, no one is at fault.
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