Hi Espy! > I'm wondering what's the best way to "assimilate" a non-Debian installed > system into a Debian one. > > I assume that I need to install a base system (either MkLinux or "normal" > RedHat) and then get dpkg and dselect installed somehow.
I tried that one but it was very hard as the MkLinux/RedHat is heavily screwed. It took me several months (i couldn't afford working on it every day though). This time I tried a different way and I'm really impressed. Klee Dienes has created an mklinuxfs.tar.gz (look at his home directory on masterr, and the /alien directory) which is some debian base for powerpc. After installing this one, configuring it and fixing permissions it works. Ask netgod, his auto-compiler is running as hell. > Is anyone working on a native Debian installer for Power Macs? Or is that > waiting on a full "base" section? Hartmut Koptein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> seems to be working on it. > I have noticed that the source for the RAM disk based RedHat installer is > available at <ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/linux-pmac/install-source/>, > perhaps that could be used as the basis for a Debian installer. Yes, I've mirrored it here. > I don't have any experience with building boot disks, but I am willing to > help in whatever way I can. I think this should not be too difficult as you can boot the machine via floppy, so it should be possible to use the boot-floppies package (but forget the syslinux stuff) Please take a look at the system, I'll create the same account as on master: powerpc.debian.org. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * Debian Linux Maintainer * [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ / http://www.debian.org/ http://home.pages.de/~joey/
