After downloading the Fluxbuntu 7.10 ISO image from the Fluxbuntu release page, I burnt it to a blank disk. The image is about 306 MB. The first laptop I attempted to install on seemed to be working fine until I booted it up for the first time and gave me a screenful of cascading static. This led me to believe that its video card had finally reached the end of its life, and so I moved on to another laptop: a Compaq Armada.
The install went perfectly, and the machine seems to work fine, except for one buggy Up Arrow.
My first assignment was to re-enable my laptop to update, which involves finding the old Ubuntu 7.10 repositories and pointing my laptop toward them to fetch updates. My fix went as follows (thank you, Jeff):
Opening /etc/apt/sources.list, I found the first few lines had been commented out.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted
As it says above, these had been commented out because an attempted update had failed the very first time the laptop tried to connect.
Jeff found through his own development ninja skills where the repositories had moved to. This eluded me, because I didn't use the word "apt" in my Google searches. I edited sources.list to reflect the new location.
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted
Lo and behold, it updated. Phase 1 of my Fluxbuntu adventure is complete.
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