Re: Debian 5

["Mr. Queue" <lists@mrqueue.com>]

On 5/19/2014 2:40 PM, Jim Harris wrote:
> I ran into a situation whereby a server was not well maintained and contains some critical scientific information for someone I know. It has not been properly maintained since the system was put together using very talented computer people at the time, but have since moved on to other things. It is running Debian 5 and has not been upgraded since that time. We checked the archives, however they seem to be closed at this time.  Would you say this person is “screwed” in that they cannot upgrade to the latest version? If it can be saved, what would be a suggestion?  Thank you.

You'd be upgrading to Debian 6 first which is currently called
old-stable and right here:

http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/oldstable/Release

So, you should be able to get away with something like this:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian oldstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian oldstable main contrib non-free

If this machine isn't public facing I wouldn't even bother messing with
it IMO.