Avraham Rosenberg wrote: > 2-Another possibility which does not take much more disk space > (and with nowadays' big disks, who cares anyway ?), is to install > a separate unstable distribution, just for that. I tried to do > it, but, during the bootstrap of the 32-bit chroot system, I > received a "cannot download the base configuration package" > message. I retried a couple of days later with the same result. > Did you have a similar experience? I used the same mirror > (http://debian.inode.at/debian-amd64/debianat) which allowed me > to build the first 64-bit system. > How do you bootstrap exactly? debootstrap? which version? Been a while since I last used it, but I don't recall such error.
However: * The man page of debootstrap (in unstable) says that the old version that's in 'stable' can't be used to bootstrap a 'sid' system (I don't know if this comment is uptodate or if it is relevant to testing too). * Also, I don't know if we should keep using the dedicated amd64 mirrors now that it's an official arch (I think I noticed some problems just before I switched back from alioth to the normal mirrors). I currently use the normal http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/debian (plus some european ones for backup). > 3-I did not know about the possibility of tweaking the apt.conf > that you mentioned. Where can I read about that ? I only know > about pinning (I was never able to guess what numbers should I > write to get the desired result) and the way I mentioned before. > Cheers, Avraham > That specific tip appears in the howto http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-default-version more resources: man apt.conf, /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/ (contains a sample file with listing of all recognized options), the apt-doc package (short html manuals) plus several guides on the net (I seem to recall some detailed html one but can't find it). Best, Amit ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
