On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:22:19PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > Yeah - I found some Woody CDs at work, and downloading complete > distributions over a 56k modem is not my favourite entertainment:-)
You found woody arm CDs lying around? What kind of company do you work for? x86 woody cds are all over the place, but arm? > Well, I hope I will be able to try that soon - I've got Sarge running on > all my (PC) systems so far - looks pretty good. > > As for my ARM - Woody results - I've managed it. As the init complained > about not finding the inittab and asked for a boot-level, I entered "S", > and got a shell prompt! Then I started installing packages by hand > guessing the order with dpkg starting with libc6... It went ok, until some > of the packages started failing with an error something about > "install-info failed: no such file or directory". Digging around, I found > out, that /usr/info/dir was missing. So, I copied the header from my PC, > then it went further. And I've installed apt-get. After that it was easy - > with NBD and apt-cdrom I added all CDs from my PC, at some point around > apt-get install -f magically appeared inittab and rc*.d links. > > So, now I have a running Woody system on my PXA board with > package-management, native compilation with 2 compilers and all the > rest! I only had to recompile the kernel, well, fewer than 10 times, and > reboot the thing, maybe 25 times?:-) It's now running under 2.6.11... BTW, > is there an update somewhere available for Woody for 2.6 for ARM? I > remember there was such a thing for x86... Well woody never did support 2.6 kernels, but some people made unofficial updates that allowed it to run with 2.6 kernels. As for 2.6 on arm, I am not quite sure what the state of it is. Certainly a lot of work is going in to it, but not all the systems are necesarily working yet. The arm-linux mailing list is probably your best place to find answers for that. You certainly want to go to Sarge before trying though to avoid too much hassle. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
