Architecture not supported - Debian 6 on Lenovo TP Edge 530 Ivy bridge
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Architecture not supported - Debian 6 on Lenovo TP Edge 530 Ivy bridge
Hello, sorry for my bad English, I am trying to learn it better. I hope, you will understand me.
I have bought a ThinkPad Edge E530 with Windows8. I do not like Windows, so I have deleted it. Then I tried to install Debian 6.0.7 amd64 from netinstall iso. Everything seemed to be fine, but when I tried to set APT mirror, I have got an error: "Configure the package manager. Architecture not supported. Specified Debian archive mirror does not seem to support your architecture. Please try a different mirror. I tried four mirrors in four different countries, but error is still the same. I thought, that the problem is in amd64, I tried i386, but nothing changed. Is it any bug? Thank for replies. BTW Debian 7 (testing) works fine.
I've sometimes found multiple mirrors really were missing something which I didn't expect they'd be missing.
You might want to find out what the system thinks your machine's architecture is, then double check those mirrors you tried, either with a web browser, or wget, curl, etc., to see if the mirrors do have files for that architecture.
Thanks for replies. I have disabled secure boot after I deleted Windows 8. I have very good and stable Internet connection (broadband 90 Mbps). Problem is certainly not in the connection, because Debian 7 was installed without any problems. I will probably stay with the Debian7.
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