Re: Debian 3.0 Woody Boot-Floppies Installation
[ CC: to debian-boot, where this belongs IMO ]
I'm not sure if the boot-floppies will ever be updated again, but thanks
for the patches anyway.
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 18:17, Giorgio Terzi wrote:
>
> i have just finished to install on my Amiga (APUS) the last Debian
> Woody release from scratch. I have used the Boot-Floppies software
> from CVS Repository.
>
> I have used an AMIGA hard-disk partition to begin the installation
> and loading the base system. I have used an ADSL connection (PPPOE)
> to download the remaining packages.
>
> I wish to submit a few (three) small patches that i have added.
> I attach the patch file which I use to patch the sources from CVS.
>
> 1) The first merely changes the kernel version number that APUS
> uses, the Debian package is available.
> 2) The second adds three lines to the file powerpc.rules:
> these are needed because without the APUSKVER variable is
> not used and the kernel file and the modules when installed
> are named with the KVER variable.
> 3) The last is in dbootstrap/choose_medium.c file:
> Without being able to read ms-dos formatted Rescue image-file
> is impossible to extract & install the kernel, the symbol map
> and the config file. By the way i have added also the capability
> to read Amiga formatted diskettes (I have made some small batches
> to create Amiga rescue disks from the disk images created by
> Boot-Floppies.
>
> 2 installing notes:
> When i have tried to mount the /boot partition dbootstrap has
> refused to mount it. It shutted down itself restarting the installation
> from the beginning. I have mounted /boot by hand using the second
> virtual terminal. For the other partitions there was no problem.
>
> I was not able to find a dbootstrap menu voice to start a ppp
> configuration but pppoe & pppoeconf was installed in the base system
> so i was able to configure & start a internet connection using the
> 2nd virtual terminal.
> Could be possible in future to have a ppp menu configuration from
> dbootstrap?
>
> Thank you for your attention,
>
> Giorgio Terzi
> ----
>
> diff -ruN boot-floppies/config boot-floppies_new/config
> --- boot-floppies/config Mon Aug 5 14:49:03 2002
> +++ boot-floppies_new/config Wed Aug 7 09:54:58 2002
> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
> ifeq "$(architecture)" "powerpc"
> kver := 2.2.20
> pcmcia_kver := 2.2.20-pmac
> - apuskver := 2.2.10
> + apuskver := 2.4.17
> # NewWorld powermacs really need a 2.4 kernel
> kver_newpmac := 2.4.18
> endif
> diff -ruN boot-floppies/make/powerpc.rules boot-floppies_new/make/powerpc.rules
> --- boot-floppies/make/powerpc.rules Mon Aug 5 12:06:08 2002
> +++ boot-floppies_new/make/powerpc.rules Wed Aug 7 09:54:58 2002
> @@ -13,6 +13,10 @@
> modulesapus.tgz sys_mapapus.gz configapus.gz linuxapus.bin modcontapus: kernel.sh
> $(ROOTCMD) ./kernel.sh $(archive) $(apuskver) "apus"
>
> +resc1440apus.bin: $(root_for_rescue) rescue.sh $(arch_rescue_deps) linuxapus.bin
> + $(ROOTCMD) ./rescue.sh $(archive) apus $(apuskver) $< \
> + 1440 $(debianversion) "" $(LINGUA) $(SFONT)
> +
> # The pmacnew images use a different kernel version than the pmac ones
> modulesnewpmac.tgz sys_mapnewpmac.gz confignewpmac.gz linuxnewpmac.bin modcontnewpmac: kernel.sh
> $(ROOTCMD) ./kernel.sh $(archive) $(kver_newpmac) newpmac $(packages_with_modules)
> diff -ruN boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/choose_medium.c boot-floppies_new/utilities/dbootstrap/choose_medium.c
> --- boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/choose_medium.c Mon Aug 5 12:06:20 2002
> +++ boot-floppies_new/utilities/dbootstrap/choose_medium.c Wed Aug 7 09:54:58 2002
> @@ -38,7 +38,10 @@
> #include <dirent.h>
>
> /* ED: floppy filesystem type is not the same for all architectures */
> -#if #cpu(sparc) || #cpu(powerpc)
> +
> +#if #cpu(powerpc)
> +const char *fs_type_tab[] = { "msdos", "ext2", "affs", NULL };
> +#elif #cpu(sparc)
> const char *fs_type_tab[] = { "ext2", NULL };
> #else
> const char *fs_type_tab[] = { "auto", "msdos", "vfat", "fat", "minix", "ext2", NULL };
>
>
>
>
>
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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