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How to update sources.list for Debian 4.0 Etch?

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http://serverfault.com – I am trying to update my /etc/apt/sources.list on my VPS. As I run apt-get update I get all kinds of 404s not found, for example: Failed to fetch http://debian.newdream.net/dists/etch/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/etch/updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 149.20.20.6 80] Failed to fetch http://www.ksplice.com/apt/dists/etch/ksplice/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found As I look into http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/, I don't see any information regarding archives. I am inside archive.debian.org, but I (HowTos)

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Submitted by dayu on 08/06/2012 – Made popular on 08/06/2012

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