On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Steve Dunham wrote: >> 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.
OK, good. >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). I'm hoping we can do that very soon... >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 OK, done for 1.09. -- Steve McIntyre, Allstor Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] <a href=http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~stevem/>My home page</a> "Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, "Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I..."
