On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:20:26 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: (...)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.No repo has dissapeared but moved.Do the ISO images for Debian 5.0.10, still exist in any official Debian repository?Old ISO images can be obtained from: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/5.0.10/ For the repos, you can use the above mentioned sources. Greetings, -- Camaleón
Unfortunately, that source does not work, either as a mirror, or as a source for ISO images.
I tried repeatedly, to download DVD1, and Debain 6 can't handle downloading the 4.4GB - whatever I tried to use to download the ISO image, crashed, and required the computer to be physcally turned off (holding down the power switch until it stopped breathing, then booting up again after a minute or so) - it would get to about 1.2GB, then the system noitorf applet in the panel would disappear, and the display within the window would go blank, and, when booted upa agian, would show less than 100MB stored.
I had tried to download DVD1, to instal from that, as I had, some time ago (some years ago, I think) got the impression,k that it is likely that most, if not all, of the packages needed for a fairly comprehensive installation, are on DVD1 of an ISO image set, and so that should have been sufficient to be a self-sufficient installation.
After a few attempts (and, having apparently downloaded about 10-20GB that disappeared), I gave up on that, and downloaded CD1, but, whilst it was a good enoiugh copy, to start installation, the data on the disk was bad, so, when it started to read the stuff on the CD, to install packaged (it got to, and, stopped at something with a name like cd-retrieve), it just showed that the data was bad, and would progress no further.
I ended up going back to the 2009 CD1, and using the repository mentioned elsewhere, which, as I showed in another email sent a short time ago, worked.
So, the repository in the message above, was too problematic for me, but I otherwise effected a successful installation, thanks to Camaleon's help.
-- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ....................................................