Hi I just took delivery of a Acer 1524WLMi (AMD64) and after shrinking the XP partition using qtparted (from OSSwatchKnoppix), installed a sarge i386 system and a sid-amd64 system using the sarge-amd64-netinst.iso from 9 Jan 2005.
Everything installed fine pretty much out of the box and this thing really flies using the 64bit kernel - great work guys ;) However, I can't play and be impressed forever - I need to do dome work ;) which requires Open Office. So following the excellent Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 HOW-TO I did: debootstrap --arch i386 sid /var/chroot/sid-ia32 \ ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian I got: "W: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 was corrupt" and after "Checking ... " a whole list of packages it baulked on apt with the message in the subject above. Is this a temporary mirror problem or something more serious? Many thanks Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
