[parisc-linux] Woody installer for PARISC

[parisc-linux] Woody installer for PARISC

[Paul J.Y. Lahaie]

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Hello everyone,

Here are the changes I've made to the boot-floppies package to support
the PARISC architecture.

Makefile:
Added an entry for hppa support, make root.tar.gz

common.sh:
Small fixes to the functions that came up during debugging

rescue.sh:
- Define the hppa "floppy" type (ext2)
- Use the "write_m68kinfo" for install.sh generation
- Compress the kernel like powerpc/pmac arch

rootdisk.sh:
- Define the C library information for hppa
- Don't do library reduction (this was failing with our binutils)

utilities/dbootstrap/Makefile:
- Change the -DKVER="${KVER}" to -DKVER="${kver}" to reflect the proper
  variable name.

utilities/dbootstrap/bootconfig.c:
- Support for PALO (our bootloader)

utilities/dbootstrap/extract_base.c:
- Change debootstrap cmd line to use file:%s instead of just %s.

utilities/dbootstrap/main_menu.c:
- Remove options that aren't applicable to PARISC.
  (Make boot floppy, PCMCIA, etc..)

utilities/dbootstrap/partition_config.c:
- Add PALO message for partition creation.


There are a few more changes I needed to make to get a working installer
for PARISC, unfortunately some of them are because of limitations in
the current PARISC distribution (kernel.sh was modified to not require
a kernel .deb since we currently don't have one and the constantly
changing kernel makes it unwieldy to build kernel .debs).  As well the
root.bin needs to be larger than 3700K on parisc though I am working
on reducing this number to hopefully fit in that limit.

I will post a diff to boot-floppies shortly.

						- Paul


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[parisc-linux] Re: Woody installer for PARISC

[Adam Di Carlo]

"Paul J.Y. Lahaie" <pjlahaie@linuxcare.com> writes:

> Here are the changes I've made to the boot-floppies package to support
> the PARISC architecture.

Glad to hear it.  Let me know if you don't have an account on
cvs.debian.org and you want a debian-boot pserver account.  You can
crypt a username/password with my Debian PGP key (aph@debian.org) and
send it to me privately and I can create that.

> utilities/dbootstrap/main_menu.c:
> - Remove options that aren't applicable to PARISC.
>   (Make boot floppy, PCMCIA, etc..)

> utilities/dbootstrap/partition_config.c:
> - Add PALO message for partition creation.
> 
> 
> There are a few more changes I needed to make to get a working installer
> for PARISC, unfortunately some of them are because of limitations in
> the current PARISC distribution (kernel.sh was modified to not require
> a kernel .deb since we currently don't have one and the constantly
> changing kernel makes it unwieldy to build kernel .debs).

Wait a minute... you don't have a kernel nor a boot-disk?  How do
people boot?

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onshore.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>

[parisc-linux] Re: Woody installer for PARISC

[Martin Schulze]

Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > There are a few more changes I needed to make to get a working installer
> > for PARISC, unfortunately some of them are because of limitations in
> > the current PARISC distribution (kernel.sh was modified to not require
> > a kernel .deb since we currently don't have one and the constantly
> > changing kernel makes it unwieldy to build kernel .debs).
> 
> Wait a minute... you don't have a kernel nor a boot-disk?  How do
> people boot?

You parsed it wrong Adam.  They don't have a .deb for a kernel, they
probably do have a kernel, though it is changing frequently.

Regards,

	Joey

-- 
No question is too silly to ask, but, of course, some are too silly
to answer.   -- Perl book

[parisc-linux] Re: Woody installer for PARISC

[Adam Di Carlo]

Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de> writes:

> You parsed it wrong Adam.  They don't have a .deb for a kernel, they
> probably do have a kernel, though it is changing frequently.

Relieved to hear that.  

Sounds like they should put their effort in debian-installer then?  If
they don't even have a basic toolchain and kernel, and boot-floppies
will be obsoleted by end of year, is it worth it?

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onshore.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>

Re: [parisc-linux] Re: Woody installer for PARISC

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 05:05:05AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Sounds like they should put their effort in debian-installer then?  If
> they don't even have a basic toolchain and kernel, and boot-floppies
> will be obsoleted by end of year, is it worth it?

we need to have something installable by end of May.

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Re: [parisc-linux] Re: Woody installer for PARISC

[Adam Di Carlo]

Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> writes:

> On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 05:05:05AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Sounds like they should put their effort in debian-installer then?  If
> > they don't even have a basic toolchain and kernel, and boot-floppies
> > will be obsoleted by end of year, is it worth it?
> 
> we need to have something installable by end of May.

Ouch.  marketing timelines, eh?  

Well, let me know if anyone who doesn't have an account on
cvs.debian.org need CVS access to the Debian-boot area.  So long as
they are careful to not break other arches or propogate hideous hacks,
its probably best to work directly from CVS.

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onshore.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>