Hi, The gNewSense Orchid repository is now online in what I believe to be a reasonably usable state for further development.
Disclaimer: If most of the instructions below are unfamiliar to you it might be best to wait for further development. If all goes well you will end up in a non-graphical environment, which is usable, but might not be what you expected. This is *not* a complete port of the gNewSense operating system for your yeeloong. Instructions: Prepare a partition for holding a rootfs you can boot off. (My yeeloong came with free space after the first partition. If this is the factory default, this shouldn't be too hard). The partition I used is /dev/hda4 and I mount it on /target; adjust these for your own configuration in the following instructions. go to /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts (install debootstrap first if it isn't installed yet) #ln -s lenny orchid #mount /dev/hda4 /target #debootstrap orchid /target http://mirror.softwarelibre.nl/orchid edit the file /target/etc/shadow and remove the "!" in the row starting with "root" so it (the password field) reads "::" umount /target reboot before boot press "Del" in the bootmonitor; #set karg "console=tty root=/dev/hda4" #reboot This should prompt for login after some waiting looking at a black screen (console messages show up under tty2 <alt-F2> for me) log in as "root" edit /etc/apt/sources.list to read (the nano-tiny editor is installed by default) deb http://mirror.softwarelibre.nl/orchid/ orchid main deb-src http://mirror.softwarelibre.nl/orchid/ orchid main configure your network (dynamically with dhclient or statically with ifconfig) #apt-get update >From here on you should be able to build packages; most relevant tools should only be an "apt-get install" away. ________________________ To boot from the factory default os again: before boot press "Del" in the bootmonitor; #set karg "console=tty root=/dev/hda1" #reboot kind regards, Andreas van Ruth system administration SoftwareLibre _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
