Re: Embedded PPC root filesystem
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
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