Re: Building Custom Installer for Foreign Architecture
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 08:19:20AM -0700, ms419@freezone.co.uk wrote:
> On Sep 22, 2004, at 3:59 AM, Geert Stappers wrote:
> >On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 01:33:23PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> >>One doesn't, the debian installer build process depends on tools which
> >>don't work with foreign binary objects.
> >>
> >>Why do you need a custom installer?
> >
> >I'm also interested in what is missing in debian-installer.
>
> I'm installing on an LVM 2 root partition with Rieser4 FS.
>
> I gather LVM root partitions will be supported with the next Debian
> Installer release. Meanwhile, I built my own custom kernel & initrd.
> Now, I understand to use the Reiser4
> (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/debian-installer/mkreiser4-udeb) &
> my custom kernel udebs, I must build a custom installer?
>
> What are the tools which don't work with foreign binary objects?
mklibs would be the really big one, I'd say.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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