[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) writes: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:45:00AM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Holger Levsen wrote: >> > which solution do you think is better? the cross-installer (isnt there >> > one for amd64 already?) or the native installer? >> >> There is currently no cross-installer for amd64 as far as I know. >> >> There is not even a 64-bit kernel flavor in the i386 repository. >> There was one some time ago but it has been discontinued. >> >> I do not think that there is a 'better' solution. Both solutions >> have their place. The amd64 native 64-bit installer should not be >> dropped just because the i386 32-bit installer can be used to >> cross-install amd64. The same is true for the ppc64 case in my opinion. >> >> Anyway, at the moment the native 64-bit installer is the only one >> that works for the ppc64 installation. But it would certainly be >> helpful to get the cross-installation option also implemented. > > Another question regarding cross-installation: > > Would the cross-installer allow installation across architectures? > > Examples Given: > * On a recent Macintosh (powerpc) doing the install > and take the SCSI-disk to an old Mac (m68k) > * On an AMD64 computer doing the install > and serve the network-disk to a ARM system.
You can always run "(c)debootstrap -a<arch>" untill it fails when it chroots into the target. Then go to the actual target system and boot with init=/bin/sh and then - dpkg --force-depends -i /var/cache/apt/archives/{libc6,dpkg}*.deb - maybe force some more packages to get dpkg/libc6 depends satisfied - dpkg -iGROEB /var/cache/apt/archives/ - repeat till there are no more errors - fix fstab, create user, setup sources.list, ... - reboot MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]