From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (970903.SGI.8.8.7/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id QAA308231 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 16:19:25 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id QAA01465 for linux-list; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 16:18:52 -0800 Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id QAA01460 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 16:18:50 -0800 Received: from netscape.com (h-205-217-237-46.netscape.com [205.217.237.46]) by sgi.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/970507) via ESMTP id QAA22982 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 16:18:49 -0800 env-from (shaver@netscape.com) Received: from dredd.mcom.com (dredd.mcom.com [205.217.237.54]) by netscape.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA07113 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 16:18:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from netscape.com ([205.217.243.3]) by dredd.mcom.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.0) with ESMTP id AAA13525 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 16:18:18 -0800 Message-ID: <349C6008.1C2F9866@netscape.com> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 16:17:12 -0800 From: Mike Shaver Organization: Package Reflectors X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02 [en] (X11; U; IRIX 6.2 IP22) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Linux-installer-0.1.tar.gz Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------DFDF405DBCEAC354DDB30F43" Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------DFDF405DBCEAC354DDB30F43 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ftp://ftp.linux.sgi.com/pub/mips-linux/GettingStarted/Linux-installer-0.1.tar.gz has the goods. I've attached the INSTALL file that comes with it -- comments welcome. I'm going to see if I can't fix that RPM problem now, because that would let me cut the cpio size down further. Share and enjoy! Mike --------------DFDF405DBCEAC354DDB30F43 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="INSTALL" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="INSTALL" First, you must pick a partition. I can't help you with this, beyond assuring you that you don't want to choose one that IRIX needs. This partition can be on a new drive, etc. Anything SCSI is fine, I suspect, although I've only tried disk drives. Once you've chosen a partition, make a symbolic link to it so that you don't slip up and toast something: I chose "drive". Now, it's a matter of a few simple steps: 1: make the ext2 partition: indy #./mke2fs drive [much information flies by] 2: start the installer, and make your basic devices: indy #./installer drive cjwsh> MAKEDEV [device info] 3: still in the installer, load the bootstrap file cjwsh> cpio root-be-0.01.cpio [piles of cpio extraction information] cjwsh> exit [ a moderately lengthy pause, and possibly a bus error -- don't worry about it ] indy # 4: check the filesystem, and repair minor damage indy #./e2fsck -fy drive [ diagnostic messages, including a few bad bits found -- all is well ] 5: copy the kernel into place in the root of your EFS partition indy #gzip -dc vmlinux.gz > /vmlinux [ XXX need info on how to boot from non-default devices ] 6: reboot! At the boot prompt, you'll want to enter something like: boot vmlinux root=/dev/sdb3 Your choice of root= parameter will vary. sda is the first SCSI device, sdb the second, etc., all assigned in increasing order of SCSI ID. The partition number also varies, and it doesn't necessarily match the "slice ID" from IRIX. Experiment a bit -- you can't hurt anything. If it prompts you to enter a runlevel, you got it right. Enter 's' and press Enter when prompted for a root password. You're in, and there are tools there to allow you to configure your network and ftp out. Known problems: - RPM doesn't work, so you can't continue the installation easily. Fixing this is my first priority, and I suspect it's a library issue. - telnet doesn't work, because it's missing ncurses. Duh. - If you want to change anything, you need to remount the root drive read-write. This should be made easier in the future when I remember to fix the /etc/mtab stuff, but in the meantime, I use this: # mount -t ext -n -orw,remount /dev/sdc4 / (sdc4 is my root partition) # mount -t proc none /proc # cat /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab - the installer should include "netcfg" to ease the network setup. --------------DFDF405DBCEAC354DDB30F43--