Re: repositories/mirror problem

[Andrew Vaughan <ajv-lists@netspace.net.au>]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:20, mailing_anthony I&I wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> could anyone give me a hand - I have been using Debian etch for about two
> weeks and it appears that the mirror I selected during the (network
> install) installation process is down or only part working - I cannot
> apt-get install even the most basic packages which is driving me up the
> wall. I have searched online for alternative repositories/mirrors but to
> no avail, could anyone point me to a recent list of working etch
> repositories or a copy of their sources.list . here is mine below
>
>  # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386
> Binary-1 (20060312)]/ etch main
>
> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386
> Binary-1 (20060312)]/ etch main
>
> deb http://download.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main
> deb-src http://download.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch
> main
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
>
> # deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main

list of mirrors: http://www.debian.org/mirror/list

HTH
Andrew V.

ps.  This type of general (ie not testing specific) question is better 
suited to debian-user.