[Gloucs] debian on SLUG update woes.

[Andy Smith]

Hi Glyn,

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 10:29:00PM +0100, Glyn Davies wrote:
> Can any one tell me how to fix this.
> 
> If I run apt-get update on my NSLU2 I get this:
> 
> # apt-get update
> Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg

Debian lenny went end-of-life in February and is no longer present
in the Debian archive.

If you still need to access packages from lenny then you can replace
your mirror hosts with archive.debian.org, which will enable you to
continue working however you should plan an upgrade to squeeze as
soon as possible because you will no longer be receiving security
updates.

> Googleing I've seen comments that volatile is no more, should be using
> squeeze-updates but adding
> 
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian squeeze-updates main

Yes, once you've upgraded the rest of the system to squeeze. If you
tried to use squeeze-updates with a lenny system it wouldn't work
and may cause problems.

> to source.list didn't help. Do I need to do an apt dist-upgrade to get
> to squeeze first? That failed too.

You do. However the bad news is that the NSLU2 is no longer
supported by Debian because it doesn't have enough memory to run the
installer:

http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/install.html

I'm afraid I haven't used a system with only 32M RAM in many years
so I can't suggest an alternative tiny distribution that may work
for you.

Good luck!

Cheers,
Andy

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