Re: Debian MIPS machines

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

David Welton wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 06:25:49PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> 
> > last weekend Florian and I managed to finally get two DECstation
> > online running a base of HardHat with Debian installed over.  Both
> > machines are booting through bootp+tftp and mount the root
> > filesystem via NFS.
>  
> > We're now trying to (re-)build the base system in order to get a
> > clean base system that should be used as basis for further
> > installations.
> 
> Have you tried uncompressing and running this stuff in a chroot'ed
> enviroment, yet?

Yes.  However, it wasn't much fun to run a system without /bin/login
which fails due to broken PAM packages.  We're working on that...

Regards,

	Joey

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