Simplified example in debian amd64 howto

2004-10-24 Thread Bob Proulx
https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id204230 In the Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 HOW-TO there is an example that I needed to study for way too long before I realized it was really quite simple. #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/dchroot -c ia32 -d `echo $0 | sed

alioth pure64 depot breakage

2004-10-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Today the following files are missing from the Alioth pure64 archive. pool/unstable/main/amd64/i/ion3/ion3-dev_20040703-1_amd64.deb pool/unstable/main/amd64/i/ion3/ion3_20040703-1_amd64.deb pool/unstable/main/source/m/mozilla-thunderbird/mozilla-thunderbird_0.8.orig.tar.gz Is anyone else

Re: Help deciding whether to use the amd64 port

2004-09-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Dave Carrigan wrote: - For servers, it is roughly as stable as i386 sid is, lacking some unported applications like Java. - For workstations, some applications have problems - most notably mozilla and its derivatives, and Openoffice.org porting efforts have just begun. However, a

Re: Do you know this mirror?

2004-09-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Brett Viren wrote: Bob Proulx writes: Except for the Packages file I see no advantage for rsync in the case of the deb archive. In fact I see a serious advantage for using http. Pull the Packages files locally and then do all of the system stats locally. It would seem

Re: how to install debian-amd64 (I will buy an a64 soon)

2004-09-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: Ok. I don't have a good internet connection at home. I usually download a dvd at university and after install it at home. How can I do something similar with amd64? I think the apt-zip package may be useful here. Download what you want while on the high speed

Re: nvidia but no glx

2004-09-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Raul Miller wrote: On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 03:16:18PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: However, having said that, working toward multiarch is definitely a high priority. Multiarch, as proposed, will not address the issue indicated in the subject line. Agreed. But if nVidia supported multiarch

Re: nvidia but no glx

2004-09-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Sebastian Steinlechner wrote: The problem here is, that /usr/lib64 is a symlink to /usr/lib in debian pure64 (though I don't know why that is). You answered your own question-statement without realizing it. By pure64 you can tell that it is a pure 64-bit system in the same way that an i386

Re: Installing from SuSE

2004-09-14 Thread Bob Proulx
David Liontooth wrote: I'd like to install Debian on an amd64 currently running SuSE. It doesn't have a CD or floppy drive, so the simplest would be to install from within the current installation. What can I do? http://www.hadrons.org/~guillem/debian/debtakeover/README I used this

debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org archive problems

2004-09-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Does anyone know what is wrong with the source pachages for drsync and hydrogen on alioth? They seem to be missing from the archive there. wget $(apt-get source --print-uris -qq drsync | awk '{print$1}' | xargs) [...]

Re: debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org archive problems

2004-09-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64/pool/unstable/main/source/d/drsync/drsync_0.4.3-3.diff.gz ERROR 404: Not Found. http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64/pool/unstable/main/source/h/hydrogen/hydrogen_0.8.2-2.diff.gz ERROR 404: Not Found

Re: gcc-3.4 udebs gone?

2004-09-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Harald Dunkel wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: It is possible that alioth may be getting overloaded. Try one of the following two mirrors. deb http://debian.inode.at/pure64/ sid main deb-src http://debian.inode.at/pure64/ sid main deb http://bach.hpc2n.umu.se/pure64 sid main deb-src

Re: Do I need 64Bit if RAM is more than 4 GB?

2004-09-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Peter Cordes wrote: Dirk H. Schulz wrote: I want to run a server with more than 4 GB of RAM. I do not need applications/processes to address more than 4 GB each. Let's say I want to have 2 instances of apache on the machine, and each instance should address a max of 4 GB. I think if you

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