On 2011-05-10 9:43 AM, Tom Grace wrote:
On 10/05/11 16:50, Jim Pazarena wrote:I have a debian based appliance which is running 2.6.16.62, I am unsure how to determine debian version.You may have some luck with: cat /etc/debian_version
ahhh.. 4.0
Is there a way around this? Other than a full update, which isn't possible because the appliance runs a canned program which would likely choke on a full upgrade.I'm thinking the problem *might* be that you are running an old release, but have "stable" in sources.list. If you find the release you have installed, you may have more luck using http://archive.debian.org/ in your sources.list.
I have: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main non-free contrib which dies (apt-get update) on: Get:6 http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/contrib Release [98B] Fetched 8830kB in 1m56s (76.1kB/s) Reading Package Lists... Error! the other "Get:1 .. thru .. Get:5" seem to work just fine. Is there an adjustment I can make or an addition to the sources.list file which can sneak this Get:6 into working? I tried replacing ftp.us.debian.org with archive.debian.org and the error messages really flew! Help appreciated. Many thanks. -- Jim Pazarena debian@paz.bz