> The system looks quite good (it's Debian so what else would you > expect). There is only one problem that we don't have a compiler on > that machine at the moment. I hope this will change within the next > days.
Oops, sorry about that. There's a few packages that I built "by hand", either by heavy tweaking to the source files, or in some cases by pillaging other people's binary packages. To make sure I don't get too dependent on this "cheating", I've been keeping those files in a separate directory. They're now in my home directory on master.debian.org under ~klee/debian (I'd put them on powerpc.debian.org, but I don't yet have a home directory or sudo access). And while I remember: Be careful also that the versions of bash and e2fsprogs in the ftp repository are currently highly unstable --- e2fsck in particular will often trash entire filesystems by mistake. I used the versions of bash and e2fsprogs from the alien/ directory in the install image; we should probably stick with those until we get the new ones working better.
