Hello Neil, Greetings!
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is no Emdebian support in Etch. My laptop is running Debian Etch AMD64 right now. So what distribution do you suggest? > Why? What are you hoping to gain? I find it hard to believe that any > amd64 machine would benefit from Emdebian. If host == build, that is a > native build - the only benefit of the Emdebian patches would be to > reduce installation size. I don't know of any amd64 laptops that are > sufficiently short of disc space to warrant Emdebian. That is what I want to achieve, to reduce the installation size to my target machine (which is not my laptop). My target machine to install a stripped down GNU/Linux (hopefully it will be EmDebian) may be an AMD64 on a mini-ITX motherboard. I am planning to use a Disk-On-Module IDE flash to store the system. > Generally, laptops != embedded. Even netbooks like the Eee and Aspire1 > can run Debian. Support for a slightly slimmer Debian for such devices > will not exist in Debian or Emdebian until after the Lenny release. Yes, I know that. Maybe you misunderstood my previous statement. The build machine that I will be using is my AMD64 laptop and prepare the EmDebian system on that same machine. Once I'm done creating the stripped down Debian or EmDebian on my AMD64 laptop, I will then transfer it to the target machine which might be an AMD64 machine on a mini-ITX motherboard. > So which? i386 or amd64? If it is the laptop, please give more > information on what resources are available on the laptop and why you > think it needs Emdebian. If it is some other machine, note that there > are only packages available for ARM right now. Outline support for i386 > (Eee PC, Aspire1 etc.) is pending as is mips and mipsel support. I am targeting an AMD64 machine but not my laptop. If there is no EmDebian packages for AMD64, what do you recommend then? Please advice. By the way, I came across the Slind website. What is the difference between Slind to EmDebian? Thank you once again. Regards, GNUbie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
