Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Steve Dunham wrote: > > >> I honestly don't know myself. Anybody? > > > >You can't build silo on i386. There is a program somewhere called > >"intelsilo", but it's not in debian, and it might need tweaking to > >work. Also, you must use the "second.b" file from the silo in > >incoming, or the CD will fail to boot on a large subset of machines.
> Hmmm. Any idea where to look? I had a quick look using Altavista, and it > just bounced me to the redhat sparc mailing list archives, which didn't > appear to be of much use. It builds out of the box, but there is a slight catch. It must be built in a tree that has already been built on a sparc. I put a package up at "http://www.cse.msu.edu/~dunham/debian/silo/";. To build the source package, you must do: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -m"your email" on a sparc, and then rm build dpkg-buildpackage -B -nc -rfakeroot -m"your email" on the intel box (in the same tree). I will coordinate with the silo maintainer to get these changes into potato. Note that before anyone starts handing out CDs made with intelsilo, we must test it first (e.g. make a CD on an intel box and boot it on a sparc). To use it with slink_cd, you need BOOTDIR=/usr/lib/silo, and you need the following patch to slink_cd: --- slink_cd Sat Feb 27 20:22:12 1999 +++ slink_cd.new Sun Feb 28 11:46:57 1999 @@ -1153,7 +1153,7 @@ if [ "$EXECARCH"x = "sparc"x ]; then siloprog=silo elif [ "$EXECARCH"x = "i386"x ]; then - siloprog=$BASEDIR/intelsilo + siloprog=intelsilo fi if [ -n "$siloprog" ]; then cd1=/boot/debian.txt Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]
