Hello, On 06-Jun-19 19:26, Sven Luther wrote: > Andreas, the powerpc 64bit archive may or may not be of interest, but since it > is perfectly ok to install a native powerpc 64bit system from the 32bit > installer, would your effort not be better invested in adding functionality to > the normal 32bit installer to select a 64bit archive and install that ? > > I mean you can already cross-debootstrap, so it should work relatively easily, > without needing much patching.
this is most probably true. It should be possible to add some kind of menu to the 32-bit installer which would allow to the user to select 'ppc64' instead of 'powerpc' and cross-install the native 64-bit port on ppc64 machines. I even tried this, but somehow I did not have success with it. I guess I do not yet know enough about the internals of d-i to get this right. It was easier for me to create a normal separate ppc64 port of d-i than to implement the cross-installation mechanism that you have in mind. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
