On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 09:38:47AM +0200, Lucio Crusca wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > > Tell me seriously this guy can't burn a netinst CD ? > Don't really know. At worst, I can do that for him. The point is he wants > sarge.
Yep, sarge for newer ppc64 machine is not a good choice kernel-wise. > > The best option would > > be to do that, and then use debootstrap if he really wants sarge over > > etch. > Ok, I didn't know of that chance. But, what about the kernel? If he sets up > etch, he will have the etch kernel. Then deboostrap will install its own > kernel, wich, most probably, won't work. Does yaboot in sarge show a kernel > menu, like grub does in the i386 arch? more like lilo, yes. Also, you should look at either : http://people.debiam.org/~luther/kernel and install the udev from there, and then install the etch/sid 2.6.12 powerpc64 kernel, this should work on a sarge system. I was not able to build the powerpc64 flavour in sarge, since sarge had no biarch compiler, maybe i will give it a try for the newer 2.6.14 sarge backport kernels. > Have you got any pointer to simple howtos about using deboostrap from an > already installed system? Is it enough to say "deboostrap --arch powerpc > sarge / file:///cdrom/"? debootstrap sarge /path/to/chroot. If you have mounted the new root partition in /mnt , you can do : debootstrap sarge /mnt but notice that this does exclude some of the post processing done by d-i, like creating users and setting a /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/fstab. So you would have to cleanup by hand. Also it will not add the users to the default groups. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
