Re: Lenny -> Squeeze Not Upgrading

[Aioanei Rares <debian.dev.list@gmail.com>]

chris kerr wrote:
> First time I've tried to upgrade my distro.  Following the directions 
> I edited /etc/apt/source.list and changed all "lenny" to "squeeze" and 
> all "stable" to "testing". 
>
> Example: deb http://debian.crosslink.net/debian/ squeeze main
>
> Then I 'aptitude update' and get output:
>
> Err http://debian.crosslink.net squeeze Release.gpg  Cannot initiate 
> the connection to 8118:80 (0.0.31.182). - connect (22 Invalid argument)
> Err http://debian.crosslink.net squeeze/main Translation-en_US  Cannot 
> initiate the connection to 8118:80 (0.0.31.182). - connect (22 Invalid 
> argument)
> Err http://debian.crosslink.net testing Release.gpg  Cannot initiate 
> the connection to 8118:80 (0.0.31.182). - connect (22 Invalid argument)
> Ign http://debian.crosslink.net squeeze Release
>
> None of my servers listed in source.list seem to work. So when I next 
> try to upgrade aptitude or dpkg, neither want to. Nor of course does 
> 'aptitude full-upgrade'.
>
> And yes, I'm doing all this as root.
>
> Thanks for any help
My suggestion is to try another server known to work, like 
http://ftp.debian.org , for example.