Re: wheezy on Sun Netra X1 ?

On 8/31/25 08:34, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Sun, 2025-08-31 at 08:26 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>> FWIW, there were discussions with the FTP team to generate new signatures for
>>> archive.debian.org so that older Debian distributions can be installed without
>>> signature verification problems.
>>>
>>> Alternatively, you can try setting the clock back.
...
> I think there might be a boot command line option for debian-installer to achieve that or
> you can try setting the clock back to a date before the Wheezy key expiration date.
> 


well gee, reset the clock does not fly well with the wheezy installer :

BusyBox v1.20.2 (Debian 1:1.20.0-7) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

~ # date
/bin/sh: date: not found
~ #

this is past the point of silly.