my Debian box is less sick, but help

[ScottHowell]

Ok, I was wrong about the boot msg. I had said the error was concerning
lilo and the fact the kernel was uncompressing and the box hung, but turns
out I was confused. Yes, that was with Slackware 8. The Debian boot error
is lilo saying,

invalid compressed format system haulted. I imagine I can fix this by
cooking a new kernel on another box and move it over. The odd part is the
kernel I am attempting to use is the one from the boot floppy. Really
weird part is I can boot from that floopy so go figure.

THe other problem is I keep getting a message that 

init init id 1 is responding to fast, disabling for five minutes.

What's that all about and oh, I only have 3 out of 6 consoles. I think
I'll try to reinstall, but if that isn't necessary, I'd rather not.

Help much appreciated. Oh, lastly I can't seem to install any packages do
dist upgrades etc. I'll include the error below on that.

Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Release
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/contrib Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/contrib Release
Get:1 ftp://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/non-free Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/non-free Release
Err ftp://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages
  Unable to fetch file, server said '/dists/testing/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such file or directory.  '
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org woody/main Sources
Get:2 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org woody/main Release
Get:3 ftp://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Release
Ign ftp://ftp.us.debian.org woody/main Release
Ign ftp://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Release
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org woody/contrib Sources
Get:4 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org woody/contrib Release
Get:5 ftp://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Packages
Ign ftp://ftp.us.debian.org woody/contrib Release
Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org woody/non-free Sources
Err ftp://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Packages
  Unable to fetch file, server said '/dists/testing/updates/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such file or directory.  '
Get:6 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org woody/non-free Release
Ign ftp://ftp.us.debian.org woody/non-free Release
Get:7 ftp://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Release
Ign ftp://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Release
Get:8 ftp://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Packages
Err ftp://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Packages
  Unable to fetch file, server said '/dists/testing/updates/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such file or directory.  '
Get:9 ftp://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Release
Ign ftp://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Release
Hit ftp://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Packages
Hit ftp://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Release
Hit ftp://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/contrib Packages
Hit ftp://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/contrib Release
Hit ftp://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Packages
Hit ftp://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Release
Get:10 ftp://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Sources
Err ftp://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Sources
  Unable to fetch file, server said '/debian-non-US/dists/stable/non-US/source/Sources.gz: No such file or directory.  '
Get:11 ftp://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Release
Ign ftp://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Release
Failed to fetch ftp://security.debian.org/dists/testing/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages
  Unable to fetch file, server said '/dists/testing/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such file or directory.  '
Failed to fetch ftp://security.debian.org/dists/testing/updates/contrib/binary-i386/Packages
  Unable to fetch file, server said '/dists/testing/updates/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such file or directory.  '
Failed to fetch ftp://security.debian.org/dists/testing/updates/non-free/binary-i386/Packages
  Unable to fetch file, server said '/dists/testing/updates/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such file or directory.  '
Failed to fetch ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/stable/non-US/source/Sources
  Unable to fetch file, server said '/debian-non-US/dists/stable/non-US/source/Sources.gz: No such file or directory.  '
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
W: Couldn't stat source package list 'ftp://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_testing_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list 'ftp://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_testing_updates_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list 'ftp://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_testing_updates_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

I tried setting this to http as well same results.

tnx