Re: broken archives

2020-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
David Hoff Jr, le dim. 12 avril 2020 12:23:15 -0700, a ecrit: > This brings up the prompt to please enter the host name of the mirror > from which debian will be downloaded. > I enter http://archive.debian.org > > then I get the prompt: > Please enter the directory in which the mirror of the debia

Re: broken archives

2020-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
David Hoff Jr, le sam. 11 avril 2020 19:28:55 -0700, a ecrit: > At the first prompt I press the number 1 to enter the url manually. > thenI use the default of "archive.debian.org/debian. (there is not a / > after it. > > then I enter "/dists/wheezy/non-free/". Where do you enter that? You shoul

Re: broken archives

2020-04-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
David Hoff Jr, le sam. 11 avril 2020 17:04:47 -0700, a ecrit: > his looks like an archive of the ISO. No it's not, see that there is a dists/ directory in which you have all distros, and pool/ in which you have all packages. So really, http://archive.debian.org/debian/ is a valid mirror URL to be

Re: broken archives

2020-04-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, David Hoff Jr, le sam. 11 avril 2020 16:33:28 -0700, a ecrit: > Is there a mirror that I can enter manually when given that choice? Yes, for old releases you can use http://archive.debian.org/debian , it contains all of them. Samuel

broken archives

2020-04-11 Thread David Hoff Jr
I have a reason to use Debian 7 from the archives, but when trying to install it the mirrors listed in the US English no longer work. I tried several mirrors to no avail. Is there a mirror that I can enter manually when given that choice? And if so, what is the mirror URL. --