Re: Installation Questions and Boot Disks?
Hi Espy!
> I'm wondering what's the best way to "assimilate" a non-Debian installed
> system into a Debian one.
>
> I assume that I need to install a base system (either MkLinux or "normal"
> RedHat) and then get dpkg and dselect installed somehow.
I tried that one but it was very hard as the MkLinux/RedHat is heavily
screwed. It took me several months (i couldn't afford working on it
every day though).
This time I tried a different way and I'm really impressed. Klee
Dienes has created an mklinuxfs.tar.gz (look at his home directory
on masterr, and the /alien directory) which is some debian base for
powerpc.
After installing this one, configuring it and fixing permissions
it works. Ask netgod, his auto-compiler is running as hell.
> Is anyone working on a native Debian installer for Power Macs? Or is that
> waiting on a full "base" section?
Hartmut Koptein <koptein@debian.org> seems to be working on it.
> I have noticed that the source for the RAM disk based RedHat installer is
> available at <ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/linux-pmac/install-source/>,
> perhaps that could be used as the basis for a Debian installer.
Yes, I've mirrored it here.
> I don't have any experience with building boot disks, but I am willing to
> help in whatever way I can.
I think this should not be too difficult as you can boot the machine
via floppy, so it should be possible to use the boot-floppies package
(but forget the syslinux stuff)
Please take a look at the system, I'll create the same account as
on master: powerpc.debian.org.
Regards
Joey
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