Re: netinst on old dell hardware

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Tue 19 Jun 2012 at 22:33:44 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:

> On 20120620_004441, Brian wrote:
> > 
> > I'd put archive.debian.org for the mirror hostname.

[Snip]
 
> I think I have already tried that, and I tried again just now, just to
> make sure, and again I got the standard "Bad Archive Mirror"
> message. That message suggests that either the archive is not
> available, or that there is not a valid Release file in it. . . . . . .

I used the mini.iso from

   http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-5.0/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/

successfully.