Re: Cross platform install

[Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>]

>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?

I'm not completely sure, actually - maybe one of the Debian gurus can comment.
But you can certainly use dpkg-deb -x if all else fails.

p.