Re: Bootstrapping sid (was m68k Debian lenny?)
Le lundi 15 mars 2010 à 05:22 +0000, John Klos a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> > I guess I should add that I've never actually tested gcc-4.5. The release
> > notes say that the feature is there.
>
> Ok... So one of the first steps is seeing how difficult it is to get gcc
> 4.5 up and running.
>
> >> glibc or eglibc?
> >
> > Only glibc at present.
> >
> > But it is a bit academic, since my cross-compiler used the packages
> > sources from sid. So we have patches.
>
> So the patches are already in sid? I wish I understood how to get the
> sources.
>
> I'm still at the bootstrap phase. It seems that there are files here,
> there and everywhere. I can download the Penguin bootloader from here:
Just a reminder: you can find a mac sarge bootable ISO at
http://vivierlaurent.free.fr/Debian_3.1_r0a_m68k_Bin-1_emile.iso
BTW, emile from git repository is able to create bootable CD without
Apple copyrighted material. See man emile-mkisofs:
git clone git://gitorious.org/emile/mainline.git emile
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-mac68k/files/
>
> I can't find a single filesystem image for m68k here:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/M68k
>
> I can't find any here:
>
> http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/
>
> Nothing here:
>
> http://people.debian.org/~smarenka/d-i/m68k/images/daily/
>
> This is completely out of date:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-mac68k/files/
>
> This is, for all practical purposes, empty:
>
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch-m68k/
>
> There's nothing, old or otherwise, for m68k here:
>
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/
>
> The web pages are certainly less than helpful. Here, for instance:
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/
>
> there is mention of Motorola 680x0, but there are no download links. So
> one has to look around to find this:
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/debian-installer/
>
> These pages only talk about CD images, and nowhere in the documentation is
> it mentioned whether the ramdisk parameter in the Penguin bootloader will
> be happy with an .iso file.
>
> Looking at all of the directories in here:
>
> http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-m68k/current/images/
>
> doesn't help. Every image is 1.2 to 1.5 megabytes. It's hardly clear what
> each of the different initrd22.gz files is for, and why there's a
> different one for cdrom, floppy, hd-media, et cetera.
>
> I guess what I'm getting at is that I find it exceedingly difficult to
> even figure out how to get started! What would be helpful to me and what
> might encourage others to try would be some simple instructions and
> perhaps a small collection of working links.
>
> For instance, here's how you install NetBSD:
>
> Set up a hard drive with a small bootable Mac partiton (with System
> Folder), an A/UX Root&Usr partition, and an A/UX swap partition (or have a
> separate hard drive for NetBSD).
>
> Download this:
> ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-5.0.2/mac68k/installation/misc/BSD_Mac68k_Booter.bin
> and this:
> ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-5.0.2/mac68k/installation/instkernel/netbsd-INSTALL.gz
> to the Mac OS volume.
>
> Launch the BSD-Mac68k Booter, select the netbsd-INSTALL.gz file, and boot.
> Use the boot menu to install the OS.
>
> To do a manual install, hit control-C at the installer, do a newfs to the
> A/UX partition, mount it, configure the network, ftp anonymously to
> ftp.NetBSD.org and download
> /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-5.0.2/mac68k/binary/sets/*.tgz, untargzip them, run
> MAKEDEV all in the dev directory, set up etc/fstab and etc/rc.conf,
> reboot, and update the settings in the BSD-Mac68k Booter to boot the
> NetBSD kernel (/netbsd) from the A/UX partition.
>
>
> Can someone help me understand how the pieces of Debian go together enough
> to get a working system, or perhaps offer some simple instructions for a
> dummy like above? I feel like I'm just randomly trying to put pieces
> together from too many different places. I can't get a cohesive picture
> (yet).
>
> Thanks,
> John Klos
>
>
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