Re: Building D-I - formerly Building boot images with boot-floppies on PowerMac
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 07:54:37AM +0800, debian@computerdatasafe.com.au wrote:
> > On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Chris Tillman wrote:
> >
> > > > Recipe:
> > > > - install the build-dependancies on the host system
> > > > I don't know what they are, don't know how to find out so we'll see what
> > > > breaks....
> > >
> > > The build dependencies are listed in build/debian/control.in. One easy way
> > > to have it check for you, is to cp debian/control.in to debian/control,
> > > then in the bulid directory use dpkg-buildpackage -D -b. Although this is
> > > not a normal debian package, you will still get the unsatisfied dependencies
> > > listed. There is also a @UDEB_DEPENDS@ entry, which the make process will
> > > fill in and download later based on your arch and sources.list.local.
> >
> > I presume I need to upgrade this system to sid?
>
> No, I wouldn't upgrade the whole system if I were you. If you install the
> packages you need, they will pull in the dependencies from unstable as
> needed, for example libc6 etc. But you will have a more stable system
> if you just let it get whatever it needs out of sid.
I copied by deb line, changed stable to unstable and ran this command:
for p in install libdiscover1-pic libdiscover1 genext2fs mklibs libdebconfclient0 libdebian-installer3; do apt-get -qqyu install $p; done
which wasn't entirely sensible (no package called install). This doesn't
look like my greatest success:
Current default timezone: 'Australia/Perth'.
Local time is now: Thu Jul 3 12:46:42 WST 2003.
Universal Time is now: Thu Jul 3 04:46:42 UTC 2003.
Run 'tzconfig' if you wish to change it.
Setting up libdb1-compat (2.1.3-7) ...
(Reading database ... 27739 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libdiscover1 1.1-6 (using
.../libdiscover1_1.5-1.4_powerpc.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libdiscover1 ...
Setting up libc6-pic (2.3.1-17) ...
Setting up libc6-dev (2.3.1-17) ...
Setting up locales (2.3.1-17) ...
Generating locales...
en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
en_US.UTF-8.../usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 24: 32642 Terminated
localedef -i $input -c -f $charset $locale -A /etc/locale.alias
dpkg: error processing locales (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 143
Setting up libdiscover1 (1.5-1.4) ...
What should I do to fix this?
>
> > btw is either b-f or d-i supposed to be able to create a bootable CD for
> > the powermac? From what I"ve read, these OldWorld powermacs are supposed
> > to boot from CD, but I've not got a CD that does boot on them.
>
> CDs are produced by yet another package, debian-cd. It uses mkisofs
> to create an hfs-hybrid bootable CD, well bootable on NewWorlds anyway.
> OldWorld powermacs can boot from CD, only if the CD has proprietary
> MacOS drivers. So Debian CDs don't boot on OldWorlds because there is
> no free equivalent CD driver (it's MacOS ROM code I believe).
>
> You can make an OldWorld bootable, if you want to copy the drivers
> from a MacOS bootable CD -- but we can't distribute that solution.
> There is a recipe somewhere, I think in mkisofs docs.
>
> BootX is convenient for booting OldWorlds from an existing MacOS
> installation.
>
>
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Cheers
John Summerfield
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