Thank you. Will be very useful. P.
Le mar 22/10/2002 � 18:41, Stew Benedict a �crit : > > Thanks to Ben Reser's gracious offer to host it, there is now an installer > ISO available to facilitate Cooker PPC testing. The ISO contains NO RPMs, > but gives you the necessary bits to boot from CD and initiate either a > network or HD install, using your downloaded RPMs from the mirrors. > > http://mirror.brain.org/linux/mandrake/Mandrake-ppc/cooker-install-iso/ > > Please don't try to do a network install from Ben's mirror, just download > the ISO image to preserve the bandwidth for other folks. It's generally > better to do a local network install rather than over the net, since > cooker packages can be changing while you're trying to install them. > > I've done several successful cooker install on my iMac using this ISO. > There were a couple of small mods I had to make to the 8.2 install > sequence, but it all seems to be working now. I'm not real interested in > installer issues, as 9.0 x86 made significant changes to the installer, > and part of my goals for 9.1 will be to try to catch back up with the main > installer and get it working again on PPC. If you do find issues, go > ahead and post, just be aware that the installer will be undergoing > change. > > Thanks Ben! > > Here's the README: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 9.1cooker_install.iso image README > Oct 21, 2002 S. Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This is an ISO snapshot of the 8.2 installer image, with the versioning information > changed to reflect 9.1 Cooker. > > What this ISO provides: > > All of the necessary installer files and kernel images to do a Cooker install. > > What this ISO does not provide: > > The RPM packages needed by the installer. > > Why no packages?: > > During the cooker cycle, packages change rapidly. Due to the hardware limitations > we have for building the PPC version, it's barely possible to keep up with new > package releases. Trying to create new ISO images, with ISO's on a regular basic > would slow down this process, plus they would become obsolete quite quickly as the > packages are updated. > > Why an ISO at all?: > > The lack of some sort of ISO image to be able to kick off the install seems to be a > significant barrier in getting people to participate in the Cooker PPC process. > Providing a small ISO with the installer files will allow more people to > participate, without having to learn the details of creating a set of ISOs > themselves. > > What can I do with this thing? > > Hopefully, once burned to CD, you will be able to boot your Mac with this image. > Once you've booted, you can do either a network or hard disk install, provided you > have downloaded the necessary RPMs from the cooker-ppc mirrors. > > How do I burn the CD? > > Before you burn, check the md5sum on your downloaded iso: > > [stew@rs6000 disk2]$ md5sum -c 9.1cooker_install.md5 > 9.1cooker_install.iso: OK > > MacOS: No clue here. I've never burned a CD in MacOS, and don't care to purchase > any software to learn how. Check the cooker-ppc mail list archives for hints. > > <More details from the user-base are welcome here> > > Linux: > > Here's how I did it just a few minutes ago: > > cdrecord -v dev=1,0,0 blank=fast -data -eject 9.1cooker_install.iso > > Your device may be different. cdrecord -scanbus will list the devices. > > OK, now what?: > > You need to prep your RPM download directory. this can be on another machine for > network install, or on an ext2 partition on the same machine for a hardrive install. > There is a tarball of the installer image on the CD, which you should untar in your > destination directory. In this example, I'm using /export. > > tar -xzf 9.1cooker_install.tgz /export > > The important thing is that it looks > something like this when you're done: > > [stew@rs6000 disk2]$ ls -l /export/ > total 32 > drwxrwxr-x 6 stew stew 4096 Oct 15 04:40 Mandrake > drwxr-xr-x 4 stew stew 4096 Oct 19 03:38 misc > > "Mandrake" is the home of the second stage installer and your RPMS. "misc" has some > tools that might be useful, should you care to create your own ISOs. > > Now you need to have all of your downloaded RPM packages under Mandrake/RPMS. > > cp -a /DIR-WITH-RPMS /export/Mandrake/RPMS > > Finally you need to regenerated the deplist and hdlists in Mandrake/base: > > gendistrib --distrib /export > > These files are in the ISO, but only reflect the state of my RPM tree at the time > the ISO was produced. They must be updated to reflect your current RPM tree. You > make see some errors related to dependencies, depending on the current state of > "wellness" of the cooker mirror. > > When you do the install, you will want to point the network or hard disk install to > the directory you just created. More details on the install process are on the ISO > in the doc and Tutorials directories. > > Once you boot the CD, choose network or hard drive install and follow the prompts. > Stage2 will load from your install source and the install should continue. don't be > alarmed by references to 8.2 in the graphics etc., these will be updated in the > future. Remember, this is just an early tool to facilitate package testing. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Stew Benedict > > -- > MandrakeSoft > PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 > IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc > > >
