Just got a K450 set up in the PA testcluster. Unfortunately the CD-ROM
drive doesn't seem to be functional, so I wasn't able to try a d-i on it.
Here's some things that need to be fixed:
- MAKEDEV doesn't create ttyB* entries (bug 293705)
- /etc/securetty doesn't contain an entry for ttyB0
- /etc/inittab doesn't have a getty for ttyB0
Here's an idealised version of how I did it. I've left out the mistakes
and swearing:
- On another PA machine on the same network, I ran debootstrap sarge sarge
and then exported the sarge directory over NFS.
- Edited /etc/securetty and /etc/inittab, created ttyB0
- Booted with NFS-root, logged in as root
- Ran fdisk to partition the gargantuan 4GB disc
- Mounted the newly created partitions, ran debootstrap sarge again
- Edited /etc/securetty and /etc/inittab, created ttyB0
- Rebooted, this time with a SCSI root
- Started fixing things like fstab and network/interfaces
Hope this helps someone else doing the same thing. And if anyone knows
a good way of fixing the inittab/securetty problems, that'd be handy to
put in a bug report.