Re: slink Tarball Progress
On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 07:40:39AM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote:
> I've done some preliminary work in this area, I'm far enough along to
> probably make the base tarball. We can start with the base tarball and the
> Mac OS "Installer" the Linux/mac68k folks wrote, it understands ext2fs, and
> has GNU tar and a bunch of other programs built into it (it's also slower
> than hell in disk I/O). There is also a Mac OS port of the e2fsprogs, which
> will be needed to make the filesystems. Hmm... perhaps I'll write up an
> INSTALL doc (once I have a tarball to test with).
I have all the packages necessary compiled; boot-floppies was a little
unfriendly to me however (failed three times and then the scsi activity
panicked my kernel). So, still trying.
> hwclock just barely supports non-i386 architectures, i.e. first it tries
> some ioctl, and if that fails, it tries direct hardware access, this is so
> it works for m68k and possibly alpha besides i386. The standard Debian init
> scripts are designed to cope with either a 'clock' binary or a 'hwclock'
> binary, since pmac-utils has a 'clock' binary, we should be able to use it.
In which case hwclock should be removed. I'll try to remember to do
that :)
> >> Missing Binaries which were removed: (didn't have 'em in RedHat)
> >> /bin/ae
>
> Odd, I was sure I'd built that. It needs patching to compile under glibc
> 2.1, but there's a patch in the bug tracking system from the sparc folks.
Patched, compiled, may NMU (mailing Dwarf is on my todo list).
> >> /bin/fdflush
>
> fdflush is for *really* cheap PC floppy drives, most powerpc hardware is of
> high enough quality not to need it.
But should it be included is the question...
> >> /usr/bin/elvis-tiny
Elvis is once again in the building.
Dan
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