Thank-you Forest, your post and the URL provided got me farther down the road, 
so to speak.

Rion

On Sunday 15 June 2008 16:15, Forest Bond wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 03:03:36PM -0400, Rion D'Luz wrote:
> > On Sunday 15 June 2008 13:39, Richard Lawrence wrote:
> 
> But you can no longer get FC3 from the official mirrors...
Yea, my bad, i just pulled that release outta my butt by way of example.
Shouldve known better:(
> 
> In any case, just adjust your sources.list to use this instead:
> 
> http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
Thanks again, that was what i was looking for.
> 
> Do note that Ubuntu makes a new release every 6 months, which severely limits
> their ability to keep repositories live forever, as mirrors would overflow.
I think I'll just stick to the LTS releases as a rule

R
> 
> -Forest

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