Hello!
John Goerzen and I have made Debian From Scratch (DFS) available for
PowerPC machines. You would do us a big favour if you could test this
first image and give suggestions. I only have my Powerbook G4 Alu
available as victim.
Primary Location: <http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/>
Temparary for PowerPC: <http://people.debian.org/~jordens/dfs/>
md5sum:
a8ed36bd6a06c411917df87404384de7 dfs-0.6.4.rj3_powerpc.iso (357M)
It follows a general (still i386/amd64/alpha centric) description of
DFS.
Robert.
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Basic Features of DFS
Welcome to Debian From Scratch (DFS). DFS is really two
systems: 1) a bootable CD for repairing Linux systems or
installing Debian; and 2) the program that generates the CDs
that are used for #1. Most of this manual focuses on #1. A
wide variety of DFS CDs can be made using the DFS build tools.
This manual will refer to CDs made using the default
configuration.
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1.1. DFS Features
You can expect the following from your DFS CD:
* Bootable CD featuring the GNU Grub bootloader. Can be used
to boot hard disk partitions even if no hard disk
bootloader is present.
* Kernel and userland support for all major filesystems,
including ext2, ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS, FAT, VFAT, NTFS,
ISO9660, CramFS, tmpfs, and more. Userland support for
Reiser4.
* Kernel and userland support for different disk layout
schemes including standard partitioning, Logical Volume
Manager 2 (LVM2), software RAID, etc.
* Full recovery tools runnable directly from CD, including:
+ Filesystem utilities for all mazjor filesystems,
including undeletion tools for ext2
+ Partition editors (fdisk, cfdisk, parted)
+ Text editors (nano, joe, vim, emacs)
+ C, Perl, Python, and OCaml development environments.
Enough to configure and compile a new kernel and
build basic .debs. Kernel 2.6.6 sources included on
CD.
+ Full networking support, including PPP and various
Ethernet cards and DHCP
+ Network tools including FTP clients, Web client, ssh,
telnet, NFS, smbclient, tcpdump, netcat, etc.
+ Backup restoration tools such as rdiff-backup,
dump/restore, tar, cpio, amanda client, afbackup
client, etc.
+ CD and DVD burning tools
+ Basic printing tools (cat for local printers, rlpr
for remote ones, and netcat for Jetdirect, plus
unix2dos for text files and Ghostscript for emergency
conversions)
+ Mail reader (mutt)
* Base systems for multiple versions of Debian installable
directly from CD, including: woody (i386), sarge (i386),
sid (i386), and sid (amd64). Alpha CD can install woody,
sarge, or sid for Alpha.
* amd64 support: Enough to install or fix an AMD64 system.
Includes 64-bit kernel with 32-bit emulation (to run the
32-bit userland on the CD). Also includes 64-bit package
for bootstrapping a new AMD64 support. In short, you can
boot a 64-bit kernel and be treated as a first-class
citizen in almost all respects.
* i386 or x86_64 (amd64) kernels bootable directly from
initial boot menu.
* DFS generation scripts support custom kernels, packages,
mirrors, compressed ISO images, and a high degree of
flexibility.
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The contagious action of yawning, causing everyone in sight
to also yawn.
-- "Sniglets", Rich Hall & Friends
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