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/
>
> 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.
> With spam training on a new mail client, that's a whole separate issue
>
> Thanks for any information.
> Regards,
>
> David Palmer.
>
>
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