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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
