> Not recompiling everything saves a lot of time - and potential trouble. I've > no deep knowledge of ppc64 interna, and if you'd say that it has no major > drawbacks I'm really fine with "just" trying to set up kernel, binutils and > certain *lib* packages.
It doesn't have _major_ drawbacks, but it's probably better at this point do a biarch yes. > I found some information in > http://people.debian.org/~fmw/p630-LPAR-Debian-en.txt > about preparing an installation on p-series LPAR's. > > Will look into this... Ok. The main problem at this point is glibc not bootstrapping. You basically need a working biarch glibc & gcc to be able to build a biarch glibc & gcc :) You _can_ do the "initial" build to get them in the first place but it's a very painful process (see scripts in ftp.linuxppc64.org/pub/people/janis as a starting point). Once that's done, though, you can probably produce initial .debs for these and do normal builds from now on. Ben.
