Hi! On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, Alexander Berntsen wrote: > > SysRescueCD does not exist for the fringe architectures. > Then make it. That way we will have a reliable install medium for all > architectures, an as an added bonus we will have helped a different > free software project become more useful to our community (i.e. the > free software community, but by extension the Gentoo community as well).
This not quite as easy as it may seem. I suspect getting SRCD to work with, say, aboot instead of isolinux. Its build process probably is not accommodating that. Now remember that this has to be modular since there is no point in tending to patches for all the architectures we want. Booting is the most obvious part. But I am reasonably sure that SRCD uses some programs as integral parts that won't build or run reliably on some of the architectures I mentioned. Now you suddenly have to modularize the whole thing. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it surely isn't just a matter of "recompile it for sparc". I might take a look at it over the easter holidays, but I doubt I'll have anything beyond "it's feasible" vs. "it can't work because of X". End note that my expertise is Alpha, I can't speak for any of the other architectures when it comes to feasibility. Regards, Tobias -- "Brain, konban wa nani o shimashitai?" "Your Japanese is terrible, Pinky."
