Quoting avr <[email protected]>: Hi Andreas, Great new! Do you see any inconvenience that we test the procedure on a Fuloong mini box?
Where should we update the wiki with our feedback? On the Orchid project page? Best regards Samy > 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 > _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
