Re: RCs for Everyone (was One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release)

[Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net>]

Once upon a time, Bill Davidsen <davidsen tmr com> said:
> Chris Adams wrote:
> >Building an image isn't free in terms of CPU, RAM, or I/O.  Also, IIRC
> >you can only build an image on the same arch as the target (e.g. my i686
> >server can only build ix86 targets, not x86_64 or PPC).
> >
> I'll take your word for that, although I have no idea why assembling parts 
> into a whole would take any architecture dependent code. I make ISOs for 
> PPC & Mac using x86 tools (mkisofs), so clearly it's a limitation rather 
> than a requirement to build ISOs.

Building ISOs is the last step of a many step process.  You have to
build content to go _on_ the ISOs.  Setting up the boot images is arch
specific.

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Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.