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I'm going to take another stab at making my antique Dell 700MHz/512MB laptop usable. (I was initially impressed with Kubuntu 11.10, but that has proven problematic.)

I'm going to try M8.0 again. Yes, I know anti-X would work, but I've been spoiled by KDE -- I want a full blown, full featured, full bloat desktop. The old beater ran M8.0 quite well a couple years ago.

With the Lenny repos being moved to archive, and recalling there's something that needs editing with the debian-multimedia repo, I'm hoping someone would be so kind as to post the definitive sources.list file I would want to use this time around.

Thanks in advance.

Here is one I have for a 8.15 64 bit install.

# See sources.list(5) for more information
# See source.list in /ect/apt
# This file should be edited through synaptic

# MEPIS improvements, overrides and updates--the MEPIS magic
deb ftp://ftp.mepis.com/mepis/ mepis-8.0 main

deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free

deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile/ lenny/volatile main contrib non-free

# Some Debian Multimedia software might be illegal in some jurisdictions

deb ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.mepis.org/mepis/ mepis-8.0 main

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ lenny main non-free

deb http://main.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/repo/ mepis8cr main non-free

deb http://restricted.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/repo/ mepis8cr restricted restricted-non-free

deb http://main.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/testrepo/ mepis8cr test

deb http://restricted.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/testrepo/ mepis8cr test-restricted

deb http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.mepis.org/mepis/ mepis-8.0 main

Where are they now? I have not hunted them down yet.

I made some updates to the wiki's Mepis 8.0 sources.list earlier today after Joany posted that the Lenny repo had been moved to archive.debian.org. You can find it here: http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php? ... _MEPIS_8.0.

Exactly what I was wanting. Should have checked there first. (Don't they/we all say that about the Wiki?)

Thanks.

Thanks again, Kent. The old beater has been given it's initial rounds of updates, and I'm now adding a few packages to round it out.

I'd forgotten how impressively M8 installed ran on this thing.