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Re: Cross-building



I haven't decided yet, but basically just XFCE stripped to its bare
bones, and Firefox.

On 4/18/11, outro pessoa <outro.pessoa@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just built an iso with live-build on my iMac G4.
>
> What are you looking at having in the image?
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Kevin Krumwiede <kjkrum@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to build a custom PPC distro for installation on some gen3
>> (USB 2.0) eMacs.  However, the only installed Linux systems I have
>> access to are AMD64.
>>
>> I contacted Chris Lamb, maintainer of the live-magic frontend.  He
>> said that to his knowledge, cross-building a live CD is not currently
>> possible, but that "perhaps the multiarch stuff has changed the state
>> of play here . . ."
>>
>> I realize that I could probably install an existing PPC distro on one
>> of the eMacs, work up a new one using the native toolchain, and then
>> reinstall... but that would require a lot of time on those painfully
>> slow old machines.  So I just want to confirm that I'm really out of
>> luck on cross-building.
>>
>> ~K
>>
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