On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:45:00AM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: > Hello, > > Holger Levsen wrote: > > which solution do you think is better? the cross-installer (isnt there > > one for amd64 already?) or the native installer? > > There is currently no cross-installer for amd64 as far as I know. > > There is not even a 64-bit kernel flavor in the i386 repository. > There was one some time ago but it has been discontinued. > > I do not think that there is a 'better' solution. Both solutions > have their place. The amd64 native 64-bit installer should not be > dropped just because the i386 32-bit installer can be used to > cross-install amd64. The same is true for the ppc64 case in my opinion. > > Anyway, at the moment the native 64-bit installer is the only one > that works for the ppc64 installation. But it would certainly be > helpful to get the cross-installation option also implemented.
Another question regarding cross-installation: Would the cross-installer allow installation across architectures? Examples Given: * On a recent Macintosh (powerpc) doing the install and take the SCSI-disk to an old Mac (m68k) * On an AMD64 computer doing the install and serve the network-disk to a ARM system. Cheers Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
