Dear SPARCy folks :
I am trying to do some testing of the kernel goodness posted
by Adrian at :
https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/sparc64/
However I have two ( or more ) slabs of hardware for this process
and I wanted to begin with an older Netra X1 unit. This means I
need a procedure to follow that is repeatable and actually results
in something that boots and works.
1) use the old wheezy netinst and netboot the Netra X1
NOTE : The ORACLE s7-2 has USB ports which may work
but I have not seen them work even once thus far.
That is a problem for some other day.
During the install of wheezy it will be necessary to drop
into a shell and create this file :
# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99unsecure
Acquire::AllowInsecureRepositories true;
Acquire::AllowDowngradeToInsecureRepositories true;
APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated true;
That allows the use of packages wherein the GPG keys have long
since expired.
2) figure out how to use the old debian archive pkg repo to
at least get a few workable tools. A key piece of the puzzle
is debootstrap. I need to create a new "root" filesystem on
another disk and fill it with the debootstrap results.
I need the results from debootstrap in order to create the
reasonable initramfs stuff with the modules from Adrian.
This step is a show stopper.
My notes on this claim something like so should work :
# debootstrap \
--keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg \
--include=debian-ports-archive-keyring,wget \
--arch=sparc64 unstable \
/opt/sparc64/chroot http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports
# ls -l /usr/share/keyrings/
total 40
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26628 Jan 1 2015 debian-archive-keyring.gpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10601 Jan 1 2015 debian-archive-removed-keys.gpg
#
So then ... where does one find the GPG files needed for archive ?