On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 08:02:29PM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: > 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.
Nice. > 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. Ok. I am ready to work on this with you, can you give me details on what problems you did encounter and some kind of status report. I will be away until thursday evening though, so it will have to wait for next WE. > 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. BTW, what hardware do you have access to ? Can you try booting : http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer-64bit-2 ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
