Hi co-porters, I'm happy to announce the existance a working Debian base system for little endian MIPS machines.
The base system is not perfect yet and it does not contain the exact Debian base system (as of base2_1.tgz). However, it works when booting from it, contains apt (just run apt-get update), contains a telnet daemon (non-package yet), empty root password etc. And, of course, this is a proper way to continue porting/hacking. ftp://ftp.geomic.uni-oldenburg.de/pub/people/joey/misc/mipsel-base.tar.gz MD5: d821a4fa97f6a7a8a92d66c6153e648b mipsel-base.tar.gz The base system looks like: satu!root(ttyp0):/binary-mipsel> dpkg -l Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===============-==============-============================================ ii adduser 3.11.1 Add users and groups to the system. ii apt 0.3.13 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii base-files 2.1.10 Debian Base System Miscellaneous Files ii base-passwd 2.0.3.4 Debian Base System Password/Group Files ii bash 2.02.1-1.8 The GNU Bourne Again SHell ii data-dumper 2.10-2 Store and retrieve perl data structures ii debianutils 1.13 Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian. ii diff 2.7-20 File comparison utilities ii dpkg 1.4.1.16 Package maintenance system for Debian ii e2fsprogs 1.16-2 The EXT2 file system utilities and libraries ii file 3.27-4 Determines file type using "magic" numbers ii fileutils 4.0-2.1 GNU file management utilities. ii findutils 4.1-34 utilities for finding files--find, xargs, an ii gettext-base 0.10.35-10 GNU Internationalization utilities for the b ii grep 2.3-7 GNU grep, egrep and fgrep. ii groff 1.11a-7.1 GNU troff text-formatting system. ii gzip 1.2.4-32 The GNU compression utility. ii hostname 2.04 A utility to set/show the host name or domai ii ldso 1.9.11-5 The Linux dynamic linker, library and utilit ii libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: shared libraries ii libgdbmg1 1.7.3-26.2 GNU dbm database routines (runtime version). ii libncurses4 4.2-3.4 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii libnet-perl 1.0606-3 Implementation of Internet protocols for Per ii libreadlineg2 2.1-13.6 GNU readline and history libraries, run-time ii libwrap0 7.6-1 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers library ii login 980403-0.3.2 Sign on to the system. iU makedev 2.3.1-28 Creates special device files in /dev. ii mawk 1.3.3-3 a pattern scanning and text processing langu ii mount 2.9g-6 Tools for mounting and manipulating filesyst ii netbase 3.16-3 Basic TCP/IP networking binaries ii passwd 980403-0.3.2 Change and administer password and group dat ii perl-5.004-base 5.004.05-3 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister ii perl-base 5.004.05-1 Fake package assuring that one of the -base ii procps 2.0.3-5 The /proc file system utilities. ii sed 3.02-4 The GNU sed stream editor. ii setserial 2.15-12 Controls configuration of serial ports. ii shellutils 2.0-2 The GNU shell programming utilities. ii sysklogd 1.3-33 Kernel and system logging daemons ii sysvinit 2.77-3 System-V like init. ii tar 1.13.11-2 GNU tar ii tcpd 7.6-1 Wietse Venema's TCP wrapper utilities ii textutils 2.0-2 The GNU text file processing utilities. ii update 2.11-1 daemon to periodically flush filesystem buff ii util-linux 2.9x-1 Miscellaneous system utilities. satu!root(ttyp0):/binary-mipsel> Todo: . edit /etc/init.d/network (enter your IP addresses) . edit /etc/passwd (add a user account) . edit /etc/fstab (remove my mounts) Regards, Joey -- There are lies, statistics and benchmarks.
