Hello! John Goerzen and I have made Debian From Scratch (DFS) available for PowerPC machines. You would do us a big favour if you could test this first image and give suggestions. I only have my Powerbook G4 Alu available as victim.
Primary Location: <http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/> Temparary for PowerPC: <http://people.debian.org/~jordens/dfs/> md5sum: a8ed36bd6a06c411917df87404384de7 dfs-0.6.4.rj3_powerpc.iso (357M) It follows a general (still i386/amd64/alpha centric) description of DFS. Robert. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Basic Features of DFS Welcome to Debian From Scratch (DFS). DFS is really two systems: 1) a bootable CD for repairing Linux systems or installing Debian; and 2) the program that generates the CDs that are used for #1. Most of this manual focuses on #1. A wide variety of DFS CDs can be made using the DFS build tools. This manual will refer to CDs made using the default configuration. _________________________________________________________ 1.1. DFS Features You can expect the following from your DFS CD: * Bootable CD featuring the GNU Grub bootloader. Can be used to boot hard disk partitions even if no hard disk bootloader is present. * Kernel and userland support for all major filesystems, including ext2, ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS, FAT, VFAT, NTFS, ISO9660, CramFS, tmpfs, and more. Userland support for Reiser4. * Kernel and userland support for different disk layout schemes including standard partitioning, Logical Volume Manager 2 (LVM2), software RAID, etc. * Full recovery tools runnable directly from CD, including: + Filesystem utilities for all mazjor filesystems, including undeletion tools for ext2 + Partition editors (fdisk, cfdisk, parted) + Text editors (nano, joe, vim, emacs) + C, Perl, Python, and OCaml development environments. Enough to configure and compile a new kernel and build basic .debs. Kernel 2.6.6 sources included on CD. + Full networking support, including PPP and various Ethernet cards and DHCP + Network tools including FTP clients, Web client, ssh, telnet, NFS, smbclient, tcpdump, netcat, etc. + Backup restoration tools such as rdiff-backup, dump/restore, tar, cpio, amanda client, afbackup client, etc. + CD and DVD burning tools + Basic printing tools (cat for local printers, rlpr for remote ones, and netcat for Jetdirect, plus unix2dos for text files and Ghostscript for emergency conversions) + Mail reader (mutt) * Base systems for multiple versions of Debian installable directly from CD, including: woody (i386), sarge (i386), sid (i386), and sid (amd64). Alpha CD can install woody, sarge, or sid for Alpha. * amd64 support: Enough to install or fix an AMD64 system. Includes 64-bit kernel with 32-bit emulation (to run the 32-bit userland on the CD). Also includes 64-bit package for bootstrapping a new AMD64 support. In short, you can boot a 64-bit kernel and be treated as a first-class citizen in almost all respects. * i386 or x86_64 (amd64) kernels bootable directly from initial boot menu. * DFS generation scripts support custom kernels, packages, mirrors, compressed ISO images, and a high degree of flexibility. -- narcolepulacyi, n.: The contagious action of yawning, causing everyone in sight to also yawn. -- "Sniglets", Rich Hall & Friends
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