I need to install Debian Lenny i386 as a VM in VMWare. The problem is that when searching for Archive Mirrors, I always get the error message
Bad archive mirror
The specified Debian archive mirror is either not available, or does not have a valid Release file on it
I tried like 20 different mirrors, all with the same result.
A few steps earlier in the installation progress the network is set up and I do net get any error messages. Also when I finish the installation without an archive mirror, I can successfully ping stuff. So the network seems to be fine.
I also tried to set http://httpredir.debian.org/ in the sources.list so if I understood correctly, debian should automatically choose a mirror. But I still can’t do stuff like apt-get update.
Is it possible that Lenny is so old it’s simply not supported? Or is there some trick to get it running as VM?
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Answer
Debian 5 was discontinued, you need to use the archive repo server:
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib
deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-security/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian-security/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free
deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-backports lenny-backports main contrib non-free