F10 Post-Preview snapshots?

Joshua C. joshuacov at googlemail.com
Thu Nov 13 05:18:53 UTC 2008


2008/11/12 Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to>:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 13:54:52 +0100,
>  "Joshua C." <joshuacov at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have i686 and want to try x86_64. therefore i downloaded livecd but
>> because of a dsdt error i need to recompile the x86_64 kernel. this is
>> not possible on i686 installation and the dsdt fix was committed to
>> f10 kernel after the preview release.
>>
>> Therefore I need a precompiled livecd image, which won't be released
>> before stable :(
>
> Rawhide has later kernels, so you might be able to build a Live CD yourself
> without having to rebuild the kernel. I haven't tried to build a liveCD for
> x86_64 on i386, but I would expect this to be possible.
>

No, it is not. x86_64 livecd can only be created in a x86_64
environment, bacause the installation on the packages includes running
the post section of some of them which requires x86_64 binaries. :(




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