apt troubles

[shaggyman87]

I'm trying to install Sarge on this old tower I found. I would use Etch, but I need to get my hands on a blank cd, but that shouldn't matter. Apt should still work.apt The tower dates back to about 98 or 99.

I installed Sarge just fine, but when I go to apt-setup, select http, and select a mirror I get the following errors.

Temporary failure to resolve 'mirrors.kernel,org'

I then get this:

Failed to access the Debian archive

While trying to access the debian archive using the information you provided, the Debian package management tool, apt, returned the following error. The questions will be asked agian.

Failed to fetch
http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dis...y-i386/Release
Temporary failure resolving 'mirrors.kernel.org' W: Couldn't stat source package list http://mirrors.kernel.org stable/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/mirrors.kernel.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages) -stat (2 No such file or directory) W: you may wnat to run apt-get update to correct these problems E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

What I've tried:

-I've reinstalled Sarge countless times making sure to use linux 26.
-I've swapped out three different nic cards, a motherboard, and three hard drives. The only common denominator among these componets is that they come from old computers.
-I can ping my network and I can wget google, so I know I'm connected to the internet
-I've searched online with the error messages, but no good leads
-I reinstalled Sarge on my laptop as a control. Originally I installed Sarge at home (I'm a college student) which had a different internet connect. I decided to reinstall it on my laptop here and things worked fine. I'm using the same cd for the laptop and the tower.
-I've tried adding sources to my sources.list by hand and running apt-get, but I get the same errors.
-I've tried looking at a bunch of different mirrors, from different countires... same error
-What I'm going to try next, but I don't think it will work is to copy the files from my laptops var/lib/apt/lists directory unto a usb, mount it to my tower, transfer them and try that. I just thought of that as I wrote this post, but I don't this will work.

Anyway my back is against a wall. I would like to fix this issue with Sarge because their is no guarantee that it won't happen with Etch. Please any help is appreciated. Thanks.

[iwanabeguru]

can you reach the internet?
try ping some site

and post your /etc/apt/sources.list file

[boggy]

Check the /etc/apt/source.list like he stated.
should read

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main

[shaggyman87]

-I can ping my network and I can wget google, so I know I'm connected to the internet

My sources.list file is empty. It's empty becaue I can't connect to any sources. If I try to edit the sources by hand and add the lines boggy suggests, and run apt-get update I get the same errors.

[iwanabeguru]

what kind of ip addres are you using?
static or dinamyc

if you are using stativ ip you need set the dns servers by hand
edit the /etc/resolv.conf and read the man