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Installing Lenny -- how to deal with expired repo signing keys?

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It's a long story, but I need to install a fresh-out-of-the-box Debian 
amd64 Lenny system.

I found ftp.us.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/ which has installer 
images for old Debian releases, including Lenny.  The README file says I 
need to use
     deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib
for the sources.list entry.

This works OK when I boot a l"live" cd, though it complains about the 
repo keys being expired and requires me to type "Yes" if I want to 
ignore that and install packages anyway.

So my first question is: Is there something I can do in apt preferences 
somewhere that will make it accept the expired keys by default?

After some experimentation with my "live" system, I decided that I 
really needed a fully installed system that didn't loose all my 
configuration stuff on reboots.

So I downloaded a "netinst" CD and tried to install using it.  Of 
course, I had to give it the archive repo URL manually (netinst isn't 
really happy without a network repo).  It accepted that but then it 
appeared to hang.  Looking at the <ALT>-F4 screen revealed that it was 
asking the same question about whether I wanted to accept the expired 
repo keys, but this time there was no way to give it the required "Yes" 
answer.  Or at least no way that I could see.

So my second question is: Does anybody know how to give it the necessary 
answer?  Or, failing that somehing I can do in the <ALT>-F2 screen that 
will prevent it from asking?

Thanks! in advance,

Rick

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Installing Lenny -- how to deal with expired repo signing keys? Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2016-09-10 07:10 +0200
  Re: Installing Lenny -- how to deal with expired repo signing keys? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk> - 2016-09-10 12:50 +0200
    Re: Installing Lenny -- how to deal with expired repo signing keys? Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2016-09-11 14:10 +0200

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