On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 12:30:54AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I'm sorry for bothering you like this, but can you please email me the FTP > address so I can get the AMD64/EMT64-based CD and DVD ISOs of the last > stable Debian-GNU release. > > Thank You
For various reasons, the AMD64 architecture was not released concurrently with Debian 3.1 "Sarge" - the current stable release - and is not, strictly, part of Debian Sarge. The first planned release as a fully supported architecture will be with the next release of Debian - hopefully at the end of 2006 - currently Debian "testing" and codenamed Etch. All that said, "unofficial" CD and DVD images were made a week or so after the launch of Sarge. They are tagged as such but contain virtually all the same packages as the i386 version of Sarge. [i386 works perfectly on AMD Athlon and Opteron (and presumably EMT64) anyway]. I'm happily running the AMD 64 bit "unofficial" Sarge at work - the only problem is that some apps are 32 bit only so don't work without chroot or compatibility library kludges - OpenOffice.org wasn't 64 bit clean at the time, though OO.o 2.x is, for example. All the images, for all architectures, can be found at http://cdimage.debian.org. I note that the DVD images (available via jigdo) are still 3.1r0a. The updates to 3.1r1 would be fairly minimal: 3.1r2 is expected shortly. Each point release (r1, r2 etc.) rolls up security fixes and they are released fairly frequently. If you can only find 3.1r0, then upgrading over the Net to 3.1r2 should be fairly minimal and strightforward. BitTorrent feeds are also 3.1r0a Hope this helps, to give you and others some starting point, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
