Debian hell :-)

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 04:28:18PM -0400, David Mason wrote:
> I finally went and did it...
> 
> Picked up 4 new 1TB drives + SSD + new MOBO (needed 6 SATA ports) +
> new CPU (Athlon II X3) and (after many frustrating hours) I'm mostly
> happy... ($650 lighter, but happy).
> 
> except, the whole reason to do this was to get ZFS, and
> http://zfsonlinux.org/debian.html has a simple couple steps to do, and
> everything would be fine... except, it works on amd64, not x86 and
> this system was previously an Atom, so I had it as x86.
> 
> It took me a long time to figure this out.
>           apt-get install debian-zfs
> politely says:
>     Package debian-zfs is not available, but is referred to by another package.
>     This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
>     is only available from another source
> 
>     E: Package 'debian-zfs' has no installation candidate
> 
> Eventually, I figured out that this meant that it is not available FOR
> THIS ARCH!  In the meantime, I wondered if I'd set up the sources.list
> wrong, or had a corrupt apt database, etc.
> 
> So now I need to move to amd64.  I found a convient page:
> http://wiki.debian.org/Migrate32To64Bit but the first step is to
> download a 64-bit kernel, so I try:
>         apt-get install linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64

If that doesn't work, then your /etc/apt/sources.list is really wrong.

What do you have?

Any system setup to use wheezy will have that package if it is i386
or amd64.

> with similar results to before.  So I try
> http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/linux-image-amd64 to download, but
> the file it points to is 5Kb long.
> 
> Sigh... I like debian, I really do, but there's sometimes too much
> magic going on for those of us who only actually poke at it every few
> months.
> 
> Thanks for any guidance.  I'd really like to get this running.  (And
> I'd like to install parted, but I get the same message there as
> before).

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Len Sorensen
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