On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 11:45:25AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 06:34:16PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > The resulting images, if the default configuration is used, contain a > > > very complete live rescue filesystem as well as enough to use > > > cdebootstrap to install the base system of all three current i386 trees > > > and amd64 sid. > > > > Sounds very nice, i wonder if a powerpc version of this would be easily > > possible, mmm, ... > > Yes, though it would have to be a separate ISO image. amd64 gets by > because a 64-bit amd64 kernel can still use a 32-bit userland.
Naturally, Also powerpc binaries are a bit bigger than x86 ones. > Actually, I'm working on the code now to make it more portable to other > archs. All that it really needs is a module mechanism for bootloaders > and a few updates to the config file format (to permit certain packages > to be installed only for certain archs). Do you have a (arch i suppose) repository of it available somewhere, where i could look at it and help out ? > I'll probably be doing Alpha next, and possibly PowerPC after that. > That will exhaust the archs I have access to :-) I would be glad to help with the powerpc part. Friendly, Sven Luther
