New instalation, old distribution, antique machine

[Nils Kassube]

Dave Burrows wrote:
> I followed Nils Kassube's
> suggestion, of editing sources.list so it points to
> old-releases.ubuntu.com rather than archive.ubuntu.com.  I ran into
> some trouble when I tried to edit permissions in order to save the
> changes; it told me I wasn't the owner.

Sorry, I didn't mention that only root may change that file. So to 
modify the file you would need a command like

gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

from a terminal. It will ask for your password to get root privilege and 
then you should be able to save the file after modifying it.

> Right, the real expert in Linux, who also shares responsibilities at
> the sound board where sermons are recorded, has been on the phone
> with me quite a bit

Hmm, there may be a problem with my suggestion above. If you are working 
from a different account than the user who installed the system, you are 
probably not in the admin group and you don't get root privilege anyway. 
Then the other person would have to do the modification to the 
sources.list file and do the upgrades too because "normal" users (those 
who are not in the admin group) are not allowed to change the system.


Nils