[plug] Trying to install a kernel but failed ??

[laurie anderson]

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 15:53:48 +0800
James Devenish <devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In message <20031227153808.34340cac.vautin at aijv.com.au>
> on Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 03:38:08PM +0800, laurie anderson wrote:
> >  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
> >  Err http://mirrors.uwa.edu.au sarge/main dash 0.4.19
> >    404 Not Found
> 
> The UWA mirror is currently empty, as is ftp.wa.au.debian.org. You will
> have to chose to use a different mirror for the time being. What you
> might like to do is copy and paste the contents of your
> /etc/apt/sources.list into itself (i.e. duplicated its contents) and
> then replace mirrors.uwa.edu.au with something like mirror.aarnet.edu.au
> (or a Western Australian mirror, if you can find one that's got a
> up-to-date with regards to kernel security). The paths for the AARNet
> mirror are like this:
> 
> deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
> 
> compared to the UWA paths, which are like this:
> 
> deb http://ftp.uwa.edu.au/mirrors/linux/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
> 
> Then, "comment out" all the UWA paths by putting a # in front of each
> line:
> 
> #deb http://ftp.uwa.edu.au/mirrors/linux/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
> 
> This will reduce the number of error message you get, because APT will
> pick up the AARNet lines and ignore the UWA lines. You will then need to
> do `apt-get update` so that APT can download the lists of packages from
> the AARNet mirror.
> 
  Thanks James I was unaware that the site I was using was empty.