Re: Debian MIPS machines

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

Florian Lohoff wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 11:40:16AM -0600, 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?
> 
> I did with good success .... The only missing things which i found
> from me temporary debian root was e2fsprogs, findutils, login.

Findutils are at
http://www.infodrom.north.de/Infodrom/satu/binary-mipsel/findutils_4.1-34_mipsel.deb

I plan to work on login and texinfo (makeinfo) now.

Regards,

	Joey

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