Re: /etc/apt/sources.list
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]
Re: /etc/apt/sources.list
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 02:01:37PM +0800, David Palmer wrote: 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: [snip] Right! So there's no need to include an amd64 rider in there at all? Apt picks it up automagically? you can also look here for mirrors http://www.debian.org/mirror/list Thanks for your help. Regards, David Palmer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You believe in the Almighty, and I believe in the Almighty. That's why we'll be great partners. - George W. Bush 12/10/2002 Washington, DC to Turkish Prime Minister Recap Tayyip Erdogan, signature.asc Description: Digital signature
/etc/apt/sources.list
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? I'll have to read the answer in the archives as I've been off-line for a while and I've got about 10,000 emails backed up on me. With spam training on a new mail client, that's a whole separate issue Thanks for any information. Regards, David Palmer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/apt/sources.list
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/ I'll have to read the answer in the archives as I've been off-line for a while and I've got about 10,000 emails backed up on me. With spam training on a new mail client, that's a whole separate issue Thanks for any information. Regards, David Palmer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I got to know Ken Lay when he was head of the What they call the Governor's Business Council in Texas. He was a supporter of Ann Richards in my run in And she had named him the head of the Governor's Business Council. And I decided to leave him in place, just for the sake of continuity. And that's when I first got to know Ken and worked with Ken. - George W. Bush 01/10/2002 Washington, DC attempting to distance himself from his biggest political patron, Enron Chairman Ken Lay, whom he nicknamed Kenny Boy signature.asc Description: Digital signature
