[Cialug] debian update issues

[Dan Hockey]

I changed the sources.list and I got wheezy to update/upgrade and I got 1 squeeze box to update/upgrade but the OMV box seems to using i386 stuff and I don't have that one figured out yet. I may end up using something else if it can't be fixed, but I like OMV's web ui.

Is there an easier way to update/change the sources.list to find working
servers?
will have to work on this more tomorrow.
 


--- On Tue, 12/18/12, Paul Gray <gray at cs.uni.edu> wrote:

> From: Paul Gray <gray at cs.uni.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] debian update issues
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Date: Tuesday, December 18, 2012, 7:06 PM
> On 12/18/2012 06:48 PM, Dan Hockey
> wrote:
> > this problem started with a debian squeeze based box
> running open media vault not making a connection with the
> debian servers. So...thinking I mucked up something I
> reinstalled and ran apt-get update and it pulled down
> several updates. Then two days later I tried to install some
> other software and nothing worked-couldn't connect
> >
> > So I dug out another box that had squeeze and tried
> apt-get update and the same thing.
> >
> > today I installed wheezy on my beagle bone and got the
> same
> > here's the output from this last attempt with
> wheezy.....
> >
> >
> > [sudo] password for debian:
> > Err http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy InRelease
> >
> > Err http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy Release.gpg
> >    Could not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/InRelease
> >
> > W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/Release.gpg 
> Could not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'
> >
> > W: Some index files failed to download. They have been
> ignored, or old ones used instead.
> > debian at arm:~$
> 
> Try our local mirror:
>    santafe.cs.uni.edu
> 
> (The crux of the issue is DNS - can you resolve it from the
> command line 
> otherwise? -- "host ftp.us.debian.org" with dnsutils
> installed)
> 
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