apt-get question

[Wayde C Gutman <wcgutman@mwpower.net>]

This what I have gone through so far,

First tried to apt-get dist-update with the following in
/ect/apt/sources.list,

ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/upgrade-i386/apt 0.3.19
i386.deb
also tried,
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian_dists_potato_main_upgrade-i386_apt_0.3.19_i386.deb

Result: "E: Malformed line 9...."

Per instruction at the Debian.org,

Took a look at the /var/state/apt/lists/partial/
Found the following,

ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_dists_potato_binary-i386_Packages

Once again, "E: Malformed line 9............"

What seems to me is wrong is the second _dists_ in the
/var/state/apt/lists/partial/
Tried to fire up the editor to edit that out, couldn't bring up and I am
at /root....

What am I not seeing and how to get this box to upgrade to potato/kernel
2.2.17 ?

wcgutman@mwpower.net or wcgutman@linuxfreemail.com