Hi,
I finally got my dfs cd going. The package, I believe, is geared towards
the i386 machines, also there are a couple of modifications that I
wanted. My final cd came in under 600M, about 585M. It did finally work
via the ofboot.b OF file. The following instructions may not be complete
since I may have forgotten to write a few items down. However, I don't
think I missed much. I also apologize if they are a bit cryptic in places.
- create dfs directory and iso "attempt" via the dfsbuild process
% dfsbuild -a powerpc -c /etc/dfsbuild/dfs.cfg -w dfsbuild
o need to not include pkgs: acpidump pnpbios-tools mdadm
- uncompress compressed directories if necessary
- remove any cached debs from the dfsbuild directories
- need to fix yaboot.conf wrt the root system references
- modify the initrd ram fs to include necessary drivers, such as for the
cd drive:
o Examine it by mounting it.
o Change it by copying it over to another directory, modify,
and recreate the ram w/ mkcramfs
o Increase the kernel ram size (yaboot.conf) appropriately
o Copy marker over to new initrd
o Some changes: copied modprobe & made a link for ld.so.1,
added drivers
o will need to do a depmod
- separate out the boot directory from the others since it will not be
zftree compressed.
o create an hfs dir with the boot dir in it
o create an apple dir with the other (uncompressed) dirs in it
- will make a multi-session disk with boot on an 'hfs' session and the
rest on a 'apple' session.
- can reach the yaboot files on the CD from the OF prompt with: boot
cd:,\boot\yaboot
- to add packages to the dfs base directory do a chroot to an
uncompressed dfs directory, e.g.
% chroot apple-dir apt-get install somepkg
o Will need to change tmp and var/sub symlinks to point to
actual directories
o nb: for the following installs I had a local reprepro powerpc
mirror that I used.
- install the xdm, xserver, xfonts, & wm (e.g. blackbox) pkgs in order
to have a gui
o May need to make X link in etc/X11 to usr/bin/X (server)
- install mrxvt and menu
- install any other pkgs one might like
- create hosts file in etc
- useful to make var/log writeable by moving it to opt/dfsruntime/runtimerd
o In general this is where anything that is needed to be
modifiable needs to be
- add a name server to resolv.conf (tho not abs. nec.)
- set password for root and export DISPLAY
- the CD can be burned by the following procedure:
# Make an hfs bootable session with the boot directory, e.g. a target
directory with boot
# Use this cmd to make the 1st (session) iso for a cd (if after dfsbuild
not doing it correctly)
mkisofs -o hfs_image.iso -v -v -r -part -hfs -no-desktop -map ./hfs.map
./hfs_target >> mkisofs.out 2>&1 &
# burn it with:
cdrecord -v -multi -dev=1,0,0 hfs_image.iso
# Retrive nec. info for 2nd (session) iso with:
cdrecord -msinfo -dev=1,0,0
0,17283 # for example
# in order to save space, the uncompressed directory tree must be
compressed via:
mkzftree -C apple_target-old apple_target_uc apple_target &
# And make it with (where the cd writer drive (e.g. /dev/scd0) can be
subbed for the hfs iso)
# the iso of the main directory is created by:
mkisofs -o apple_image.iso -v -v -r -z -part -apple -C 0,17283 -M
hfs_image.iso -no-desktop -map ./hfs.map ./apple_target >> mkisofs.out
2>&1 &
# and burn it with:
cdrecord -v -dev=1,0,0 -multi apple_image.iso
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