Hello, I recently upgraded my desktop machine from a Pentium3 to an Athlon64-based system. I'm still running the same operating system, an x86/32-bit version of sarge.
My system is running fine and I'm not willing to risk it by installing a 64-bit sarge. However I'm interested to play with the amd64 port, so I created a new LVM volume and panned to debootstrap the amd64 port into it. So far so good. Debootstrap offers an --arch parameter, but it fails after downloading the packages with an "Exec format error". What is the --arch parameter for? Is there another option beside using the debian installer, which I'm a little bit afraid of? Regards, Jim
