Automatic installation of Debian 11 on ARM64

2023-10-15 Thread Frank Wilson
Hi, Has anyone successfully used the "automatic installation" option for the Debian 11 installer? I was expecting this option to give me screen where I can enter the URL to my preseed file (which it does on x86), but all I get on arm64 is a black screen and a blinking cursor. There are no apparent

debian unofficial key problems

2008-03-22 Thread Frank Wilson
I'm using the unofficial repository for some packages but I keep getting the following error whenever I run "aptitude update": W: GPG error: http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org testing Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 394D199524

Re: capping the apt-getting of packages from ftp.xy.debian.org to < 50KBps?

2007-10-02 Thread Frank Wilson
> I gather that you've tried several different mirrors, right? What kind > of d/l speed do you get using any of the free bandwidth testers? > Well I went to speedtest.net (I don't know if that's a good one or not!). They gave me 275Kbps down and 354Kbps up (that's bits this time!). Those figures l

capping the apt-getting of packages from ftp.xy.debian.org to < 50KBps?

2007-10-02 Thread Frank Wilson
I seem to find it hard to get a decent speed for any of the ftp archive mirrors. I've tried using net-select but I rarely get over 50KBps and often get less than 30KBps (big B stands for bytes here!). I have considered using axel instead of wget with apt-get (to increase my download speed by downlo