On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 07:40:39AM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote: > I've done some preliminary work in this area, I'm far enough along to > probably make the base tarball. We can start with the base tarball and the > Mac OS "Installer" the Linux/mac68k folks wrote, it understands ext2fs, and > has GNU tar and a bunch of other programs built into it (it's also slower > than hell in disk I/O). There is also a Mac OS port of the e2fsprogs, which > will be needed to make the filesystems. Hmm... perhaps I'll write up an > INSTALL doc (once I have a tarball to test with).
I have all the packages necessary compiled; boot-floppies was a little unfriendly to me however (failed three times and then the scsi activity panicked my kernel). So, still trying. > hwclock just barely supports non-i386 architectures, i.e. first it tries > some ioctl, and if that fails, it tries direct hardware access, this is so > it works for m68k and possibly alpha besides i386. The standard Debian init > scripts are designed to cope with either a 'clock' binary or a 'hwclock' > binary, since pmac-utils has a 'clock' binary, we should be able to use it. In which case hwclock should be removed. I'll try to remember to do that :) > >> Missing Binaries which were removed: (didn't have 'em in RedHat) > >> /bin/ae > > Odd, I was sure I'd built that. It needs patching to compile under glibc > 2.1, but there's a patch in the bug tracking system from the sparc folks. Patched, compiled, may NMU (mailing Dwarf is on my todo list). > >> /bin/fdflush > > fdflush is for *really* cheap PC floppy drives, most powerpc hardware is of > high enough quality not to need it. But should it be included is the question... > >> /usr/bin/elvis-tiny Elvis is once again in the building. Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
