On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Rogério Brito wrote: > Dear people, > > Thanks to Charles Plessy, I have now a new PowerPC based machine, which is > a Kuro Box [*], an embedded system/NAS with a Linux kernel and a kind of > stripped down RH-like system (no compilers, no chroot, no NFS server etc). > > I obviously want to run Debian on it so that I downloaded the powerpc > basedebs.tar from woody, a statically linked busybox (for chroot), unpacked > and manually installed these packages, upgraded to sarge and now to etch. > This system image is already tarred and available for others to see, if > necessary. > > Unfortunately, things are not that easy, since there are two main > obstacles:
Hi, ask on #linkstationwiki on FreeNode, or talk on http://www.nas-central.org/ forums, or post to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (might need to subscribe). Good luck Guennadi > > * the kernel available on the firmware is a kernel 2.4.17 and the libc6 > from lenny requires a 2.6 kernel for the NTPL support. It seems to be > possible to upgrade the kernel to 2.6, but not as trivial as with a > PowerMac (and I'm used to both OldWorld and NewWorld PowerMacs). > > * There seems to be some daemons (heartbeat daemons) and utilities that > need special attention (read: packaging) and that are not yet available > in Debian (or outdated), together with corresponding initscripts. > > Since this is my first incursion into the embedded arena, I would welcome > any help (and, BTW, learn and collaborate with the emdebian project with my > own packages). > > It seems to me that a special kernel should be compiled, that special > devices should be created (apparently, the current udev/kernels don't > create the necessary devices needed so that the device doesn't shuts down > automatically) and that some daemons specific to the kurobox (and variants) > should be packaged. > > Well, that's it. If someone can help here, it would be wonderful. I plan on > documenting what I do so that others can benefit from an easy/standard > Debian install. > > > Thanks in advance for any help, Rogério Brito. > > P.S.: One of the necessary daemons seems to be at > <https://sourceforge.net/projects/ppc-evtd/>, with a GPL license. > P.S.2: I'm not currently subscribed to debian-devel. I would appreciate > being Cc'ed. > > [*] http://penguinppc.org/embedded/kuro/ > -- > Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 > http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito > Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
