[xen-tools] Re: xen-tools final test ..

[Steve Kemp]

On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 06:47:48PM +0100, Henning Sprang wrote:

> Do you have debootstrap from etch installed?

  Yes.  (Well sid but thats better, or no worse at least.)

> What's the error?

  root at mine:/srv/dists#  debootstrap --arch amd64 sarge
  /srv/dists/sarge.amd64
  I: Retrieving Release
  E: Invalid Release file, no entry for main/binary-amd64/Packages

 (ie.  There appears to be no 64-bit Sarge available, since that wasn't
 officially released.)

  Using i386 works correctly, and I can install both flavours of Etch:

  root at mine:# debootstrap --arch i386  sarge /srv/dists/sarge.i386

  root at mine:# debootstrap --arch amd64 etch  /srv/dists/etch.amd64
  root at mine:# debootstrap --arch i386  etch  /srv/dists/etch.i386

 
> >But that failed.  Etch worked properly, I guess it is because we didn't
> > have an official 64-bit sarge release.
> 
> erm, I did not realize this above. clearly you can't installl with
> --arch amd64 if there's no support in debian for this arch and the
> version you wanna bootstrap... but you can try --arch i386. I think
> that was exactly the situation when I wroite the wishlist bug for
> adding --arch to xen-tools.

  OK that makes sense, and is basically what I expected.  I will see
 if there are unoficial sources available for it but I wondered if
 somebody had done the job already.  I guess having one installation
 would be sufficient if it could be copied.

Steve
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