Re: apt-sources List
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 04:51:17PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Matt Chipman (mkchipman@optushome.com.au) [020423 15:51]:
> > Is there a list of or a method of finding alternative apt-able archives for
> > both woody and potato?
>
> see these pages:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html
> http://www.debian.org/mirror/mirrors_full
>
> >
> > I have uncommented the sources option in the potato install and am getting
> > 404 errors :(
> >
> > I need another archive
>
> In particular, the second link above should be of interest to you.
> Section 2.3 of the first link (the apt howto) discusses using netselect
> to automatically find a fast mirror, but the quickest answer is probably
netselect-apt works accurately and fast. Just remember that it will
write the sources.list file in the current directory.
-Andy
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