Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

[Bret Busby <bret@busby.net>]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Brian wrote:

> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:47:45
> From: Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
> Reply-To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account
> Resent-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:48:03 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:39:23 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote:
>
> > On 22.07.2012 20:49, Bret Busby wrote:
> > > However, another problem has arisen, that indicates that that
> > > system apparently cannot be updated, and has to stay as it is,
> > > without having been updated for about a year or so, which is
> > > unfortunate for a firewall computer.
> >
> > Try putting the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list on that Debian 5.
> >
> > deb http://http.debian.net/debian-archive/debian lenny
> > deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian-archive/debian lenny
> >
> > Or in apt configuration
> >
> > http://http.debian.net/debian-archive/debian lenny
> >
> > should work.
>
> Neither will work as none of the mirrors used by http.debian.net has the
> Lenny achive on it.

And I had just tried it, and got the same error message as with every 
other mirror that I had tried; "Bad Archive Mirror".

I think that I really need access to the ISO images.

One thing that I do not understand; in February, a message was 
broadcast, stating that Debian 5.0.10 had just been realeased, and then, 
all Debian 5 repositories appear to have been disappeared, as soon as 
Debian 5.0.10 was released.

It seems strange (to me), that notification of an update release is 
broadcast, and then all repositories of that version, are disappeared at 
the same time as that release.

Do the ISO images for Debian 5.0.10, still exist in any official Debian 
repository?

Thank you in anticipation.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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