Hi Axel, > Got it working. Took the full apt-get command as multistrap did, but > removed the three perl modules in question as well as debconf-i18n > which needs them, but I never need and which I consider to be > primarily disk space waste. > > But this just got stuff downloaded. Next step was to put that reduced > package list into the multistrap.conf's "packages=" and set > "omitrequired=true" (needs to be in the [General] section) and > restart. That worked. Yay! > > Will likely try to build these three packages locally and see how far > I come.
You did it! If you have a extra partition left, it's smart to copy a backup on that before install the dev tools. So you can always go back-forward. It's good to know from sparc you can easily chroot into a mounted sparc64 partition. Beware, please mount /proc & /sys before if needed. Thanks, Frans van Berckel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
