Re: Cross platform install
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999 13:56:52 +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
>>ramdisk. My idea is to make an ext2 ramdisk on a debian-i386 system,
>>install a base debian-arm system with some extra packages (PPP, for
>>example) on it, compress the ramdisk and burn it into the flash memory on
>>the SA-1100 board. Is this idea possible at all?
>
> Yes, that should be no problem. The ext2 filesystem is portable across
> architectures, even those of different endianness or word size.
Maybe I should have made my question more clear: I know that the ext2
filesystem is portable, but are the Debian tools portable? I've no doubt
that I can untar the debian-arm base system to the ramdisk, but is it
possible to run an i386 dpkg/apt and tell it to use debian-arm packages
for input and the ramdisk as output?
Erik
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