Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 03:53:07PM +0100, Adrian Cox wrote: > > Now it needs a root file system. Can anybody give me some tips on > > setting up a root file system for an embedded PowerPC, in an initrd or > > by nfsroot?
> You're not going to be able to force dpkg to do it; or rather, you > don't want to. The --root and --force-arch(itecture?) options will let > it work but you are better using dpkg --unpack then --install, and > trying to configure it later on the powerpc with dpkg --configure > --pending. May need some hand tweaking. The solution seems to be Brian May's (fairly new) diskless package. It needs a few tweaks to host a PowerPC off x86, but it does work. This allowed me to boot a base installation until the point where I could run dselect and configure the packages. - Adrian Cox
