Re: debian-cd // sparc
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 08:31:43AM -0800, Jim Westveer wrote:
> Ben,
>
> I am a 'Sparc' dummy, so please bare with my perhaps
> silly questions.
>
> I would like to run debian-cd (yacs) to generate sparc images.
>
> As the debian-cd is today, and with me using a i386 based
> host, debian-cd errors out on mkhybrid because I do not have
> the cd.b or a second.b files that are required by the boot-sparc
> routines.
>
> I can specify the location of these files in the CONF.sh, but
> it seems that they can only be generated by 'silo' running on
> a sparc, therefore with boot-sparc specifing -B on the mkhybrid
> commandline on a pc, will cause, mkhybrid to fail, and no CD #1
> images will be generated.
>
> I could configure debian-cd to build non-bootable images, but then
> other files that are generated by boot-sparc would also not be
> included on the image.
>
> So, I guess I could go out and beg/borrow/steal a Sparc system,
> to create images on, or I could perhaps figure out how to
> use 'intelsilo' to generate cd.b and second.b. (I am hacking at
> that idea, but again, being a sparc idiot, I have as yet not
> made much progress.)
Those files can be extracted from the silo package, they are not
generated. I will, however, change the script to actually pull them from
the actual silo package automatically (from the local mirror) so that you
wont need to specify the /boot location. Again, it does not require a
sparc to build them though.
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