Re: netinst on old dell hardware
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Paul E Condon
<pecondon@mesanetworks.net> wrote:
>
> 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 have
> looked at the site with iceweasel, the site is available, and a readme
> says it contains Lenny, but I don't know where to look in order to
> see if it contains a valid Lenny release file. I find it hard to believe
> that it contains all that I see, but not a release file in the proper
> place, but maybe yes. OTOH maybe its there and I didn't find and netinstCD
> didn't find it as well.
1) "http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-5.0/"; has the release files.
2) I don't think that you can point a netinst installer to
"archive.debian.org". You'll have to download a CD1 installer - or try
a debootstrap install.
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