On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 09:05, Eric Sharkey wrote: > I'm still having no luck getting an AMD64 kernel running with anything > even approaching stability. me either. I've given up for awhile... well, note that I intend to use this box as a desktop, not a server. Server is fine with 64/32. > I'm still getting, among other things, 'INIT: error reading initrequest' > errors on the console, from just about every /etc/init.d/* script. me too. I never figured that one out. > Also, in general, is there a way to force apt to install an amd64 > package? The problem is that the i386 Debian package repository > packages frequently have higher version numbers than the amd64 > equivalents, so even if the debian-amd64.alioth apt source is listed > before the regular Debian apt source, those packages are ignored. > (Sorry if this is a FAQ.) Search the archives for /etc/apt/preferences file. You'll probably have to recreate your chroot from scratch, but if you do this: 1) debootstrap using alioth 2) add the /etc/apt/preferences file with the proper "pinnings" 3) edit your /etc/apt/sources.list then the i386 packages shouldn't clobber the preferred amd64 ones. This is what I understand, anyway. Haven't had time to test it yet... -s
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