Re: "Couldn't download apt" when debootstrapping sid-ia32 into chroot
Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> writes:
> Hi
>
> I just took delivery of a Acer 1524WLMi (AMD64) and after shrinking the
> XP partition using qtparted (from OSSwatchKnoppix), installed a sarge
> i386 system and a sid-amd64 system using the sarge-amd64-netinst.iso
> from 9 Jan 2005.
>
> Everything installed fine pretty much out of the box and this thing
> really flies using the 64bit kernel - great work guys ;)
>
> However, I can't play and be impressed forever - I need to do dome work
> ;) which requires Open Office.
>
> So following the excellent Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 HOW-TO I did:
>
> debootstrap --arch i386 sid /var/chroot/sid-ia32 \
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian
>
> I got:
> "W: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2
> was corrupt"
>
> and after "Checking ... " a whole list of packages it baulked on apt
> with the message in the subject above.
>
> Is this a temporary mirror problem or something more serious?
>
> Many thanks
>
>
> Clive
That usualy means the mirror is broken.
I recommend using cdebootstrap though.
MfG
Goswin
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