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Re: Successful first-stage bootstrap for mipsel



On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 01:56:48PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:30:39AM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote:
> > Hallo everybody,
> > I have successfully done a first-stage bootstrap (until the reboot 
> > after complete installation of the base system) on a DECstation
> > (mipsel) with sid this night. I will test the rest when
> > I am back from work this evening.
> > 
> > We needed some patches to
> > - busybox (requires CVS version)
> > - debootstrap
> > - bootfloppies
> > and there are still several rough edges and oddities, but it has worked
> > in principle. Currently both bootstrapping and booting the installed 
> > system has to be done via network, but that is not unusual for this kind 
> > of machine.
> 
> For the decstation set of boot-floppies one could include "delo" - There
> are some unresolved licensing issues with it as i used a BSD header
> and i dont seem to find time to solve this. 
> 
> Flo
> -- 

Hm yeah in the debootstrap-scripts delo is mentioned to bee install, but the installer
didn't find the package. Is delo now as package in the mipsel?

-- 


Henning Heinold



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