I've got a Risc PC which used to run potato, but having reformatted the hard disc, I'm wanting to reinstall Debian on it. I have a dump of the contents of the Linux partition on another machine, so I only want to install enough stuff to be able to run restore and restore everything from the old partition. So I want to install potato back onto it.
However, the machine has a RISC OS 4 partition, which the 2.2 potato boot floppies won't touch. I have a 2.4.16rmk2 kernel, but this doesn't like my 2.2 root disc (complains something about not being able to init, and suggests I supply init= to the bootloader). So I think I need to build my own boot floppies. I have access to an i386 machine running potato and another running woody. However apt-get source boot-floppies on the woody box gives me stuff that looks like it is going to build i386 boot floppies for me - the make dependency checks moan about particular packages not being installed - which I don't want, given I'm not building for i386. Supplying architecture=arm to make doesn't seem to help. I have root on the woody box but not the potato box, and would rather neither needed it if at all possible. So is it possible to cross compile boot floppies? Thanks, Theo -- Theo Markettos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gonville and Caius College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cambridge, CB2 1TA, UK http://www.markettos.org.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
