Problem installing Etch using local mirror

2011-09-09 Thread Lurker_pas
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian Etch from floppy and local mirror. It fails with message: The specified Debian archive mirror is either not available, or does not have a valid Release file on it. Please try a different mirror. Before I get bashed for this question, I'd like to explain

Re: Problem installing Etch using local mirror

2011-09-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Lurker_pas wrote: Then I tried archive.debian.org - failed. I would poke at this more closely. Why is this failing? I have a few obsolete Etch and even Sarge machines still hitting that archive and they are validating the archive okay. Seems to me that part should be working and that problem

Re: Problem installing Etch using local mirror

2011-09-09 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes: […] Another possibility would be Syslinux. The upstream Syslinux site is down for me at this moment making it hard for me to check docs but as I recall it still supports floppy disk booting and has a process to bootstrap a network boot from a floppy