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/
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> 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.
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> Thanks for any information.
> Regards,
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> David Palmer.
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