On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 15:26 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:04:46AM +0800, David Palmer wrote: > > Having a problem - with two different releases, now, 4.0r3 and 4.0r4, on > > installation. > > > > For some reason the installer no longer includes John Hasler's pppconfig > > package (although plenty of attention is given to pppoe), setserial > > isn't included in the base config to assist with modem port detection, > > so consequently, there's no access to a mirror and the only thing that > > ends up in the sources.list file is the cdrom path. > > > > I could probably figure things out but I'm a bit doubtful on the syntax > > employed when specifying the paths in the /etc/apt/sources.list edit. > > > > I've searched everywhere fron Martin Kraft's book, to ' Linux Rute > > User's Tutorial and Exposition', the Debian site - including the amd64 > > installation manual, man pages and google.....amongst others, but I can > > find no hard and fast specification as to whether the 'amd64' qualifier > > should be included in the path and if so, how it should be qualified, > > i.e. associated with forward slashes; underscores or hyphens. > > > > Could anybody point me to a reliable source, please? > > man sources.list > > Some examples: > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib > non-free > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/stable-updates/
Right! So there's no need to include an amd64 rider in there at all? Apt picks it up automagically? Thanks for your help. Regards, David Palmer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]