On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 11:40:16AM -0600, David Welton wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 06:25:49PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > last weekend Florian and I managed to finally get two DECstation > > online running a base of HardHat with Debian installed over. Both > > machines are booting through bootp+tftp and mount the root > > filesystem via NFS. > > > We're now trying to (re-)build the base system in order to get a > > clean base system that should be used as basis for further > > installations. > > Have you tried uncompressing and running this stuff in a chroot'ed > enviroment, yet?
I did with good success .... The only missing things which i found from me temporary debian root was e2fsprogs, findutils, login. I compiled those three and found pam missing. Pam doesnt compile as module_userd needs DBM which is (no expert) is from glibc 2.1 which we havnt got - 2 Solutions. Let out module_userdb (Which will be the first step) and provide a solution based on gdbm (Which doesnt work as good as i thought) Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-5241-470566 ... The failure can be random; however, when it does occur, it is catastrophic and is repeatable ... Cisco Field Notice
