OK, I've spent a couple of evenings reading the docs and trying to grok the whole thing. I think I've mostly got it but I have a few questions:
1) Some .cfg files in build/config/ specify MEDIA_TYPE instead of TYPE. Type seems to be the main things that decides which package lists are used, but I don't quite see how it works with MEDIA_TYPE - can someone explain the difference? I started adding some text on the bottom of build/README about what the various makfile variables are for (as most of the job seems to be filling in the right variables in your .cfg fragment so long as you don't want to do anything too exotic) - a crib sheet for these would be handier than having to work through the makefile and scrits to work out what to fill in. As I don't know what I'm doing I am in danger of talking rubbish of course - feel free to correct me, or add some more :-) 2) I haven't worked out yet where I have to tell the system that I want to use a serial console. Does it need to be set in Cdebconf or in a kernel boot string somewhere? This feels like a dumb question, but wandering about hasn't answered it for me yet. 3)d-i 'doesn't support cross-compiling'. This makes life slightly harder for me, although it's better than bootfloppies, where native compiles took forever. Looking at it, I can't see that much needs to change to make this possible except getting the various instances of dpkg-architecture to give the right answers (which I think can be done with dpkg-cross). Then it should just get .udebs of the correct arch. Is there something I haven't appreciated about how it works which is going to make cross-compiling really tricky? If not I might try and get it working, just because it's convenient for me. TIA (I'm away next week so nothing doing for a while - it's peter's turn for a bit now :-) Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]