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Re: AMD64 Kernel Available



John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:

> On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 12:34:53PM -0400, Brett Viren wrote:
>> Hi John,
>> 
>> John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:
>> > It has ext2, ext3, reiser, JFS, XFS, LVM/MD, RAID, SATA/IDE, USB, PCMCIA
>> > built in.  No DRM, sound, etc.
>> 
>> But no SMP.  Any reason or simply oversite?
>
> Because it's designed to be a bootstrap kernel from which you can build
> your own real kernel -- and it has to be as small as possible.  Once you
> have this, you can download Anders Brandt Petersen's tarball, chroot
> into it, and build a custom amd64 kernel for your box.
>
> -- John

Better just

cdebootstrap sid /chroot http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64

a fresh one. For once thats a clean chroot and slightly more current.
And on the other hand this needs testing and someone screams when we break
something.

MfG
        Goswin



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