Re: Building D-I - formerly Building boot images with boot-floppies on PowerMac
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.
> 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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