On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 03:14:32PM +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote: > Anyway, in principle, I should be able write a shell script to > create the above image, and add an isofs partition containing the debian > mips install cd. Just, I bet it can't deal with sash / the prom > properly - it's probably dependent on arcboot. Also, it would need > different kernel packages. It only makes sense to build 'native' kernel packages if we have the corresponding toolchain packaged. Nobody ever packaged the mips64 binutils/egcs from oss for debian. [..snip..] > Perhaps a better approach is to get the kernel to prompt users to > change disks, and stick in the vanilla debian CD? i.e. have a > "mips64-bootstrap.img" CD image, which prompts for install-1 afterwards. Why not use the CONFIG_EMBEDDED_RAMDISK option to append the installer image as initrd to the kernel and dump this into the vh? To build the vh on the CD you can probably use the same script Flo made for IP22: http://www.silicon-verl.de/home/flo/software/genisovh-0.1.tgz Regards, -- Guido
