On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 20:31 +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > How much commonality exists between the i386 versions of Etch or Sarge and > the AMD 64 version of Etch?
I expect very little. I was just wanting to do a similar thing - make a DVD of my Sarge-AMD64 CDs. But cdimage.debian.org doesn't have the 3.1r0a jigdo files any more, so I tried the latest ones, and it needed to download more than 5000 of the 7000 odd packages (of the first disc). So from Sarge to Etch I don't expect there to be any common packages. > I am going to do this as an exercise to learn about jigdo and also to find > the most efficient way of downloading a full distribution from the mirror > sites. Jigdo certainly is efficient. The nice thing about it is if you download the DVDs and you need to install on a box that has only a CD-ROM, jy you use jigdo to make the CDs without downloading it all again. Although I have noticed that there are some packages on the DVDs that are not on the CDs and vice versa. The other nice thing is you can use ordinary apt mirrors (that do not contain the ISO images) to download and create the ISO images. And you can download from different mirrors. Say DVD1 from one mirror, DVD2 from another at the same time (if you have the bandwidth). > Motherboard > Form Factor Micro ATX > Socket Type 754 Pin > Compatible Processors AMD Athlon 64 and Sempron, Socket 754 (754-pin), > 1600MT/s > Cache Level 2 Size 128 KB > Chipset SiS760GX + 964 Try to get a board with VIA chipset. I've never had any particularly good experiences with SiS chipsets. Gigabyte has a Micro-ATX board with, something like K8M800M, which is available in a barebones box and is good value, and completely supported under Sarge. We use a couple of them for mail/web servers. I've also setup a Linux desktop one one of them with a 1.6GHz Sempron for my dad and it really flies. 512MB memory is sufficient, but always more is better. I have 2GB in my notebook, and I must say, it was worth every dime! I never utilize all of it, but that's the point - to never swap. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]