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This a a great way to install Linux with total controll. And it is the most easy method to install Debian on an AMD64 based system at this time (October 2004). For a review go to the LNW, the DFS home is maintained by John Goerzen. Here are some usefull links...
LNW article: http://lwn.net/Articles/86679/
DFS home: http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/html/
I tested and described DFS below on a i386 system. First things first, download the ISO and write it to CD.
Boot the DFS CD, configure network (see the dfshelp command), partition your drive, mkswap ..., swapon ..., mke2fs ..., mount ... /mnt
$ tune2fs -c or -i # to overwrite automatic fsck. $ tune2fs -j /dev/hdaX # to enable journaling (ext2 to ext3)
Note: After the enabling of ext journaling, be certain to change the partition type from ext2 to ext3 in /etc/fstab!!
Once booted and logged-in, DFS shows some usefull commands. You can also launch dfshelp, the html-based documentation (which still needs some work).
Configure the network as documented in dfshelp. You brobably will need load your adapter driver before bringing it to an UP state wih the ifup - command.
$ lsmod # to list loadable modules $ modprobe xyz # to load modules
Note: xyz will be something like eepro100, tg3, etc..
$ cdebootstrap sid /mnt file:///opt/packages $ cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/etc/ $ cp /etc/network/interfaces /mnt/network/ $ chroot /mnt
Read this, to use and configure your Debian install system http://www.nl.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html
$ vi /etc/apt/sources.list >deb http://http.us.debian.org sid main contrib non-free >deb http://ftp.debian.org sid main contrib non-free >deb-src http://http.us.debian.org sid main contrib non-free >deb-src http://ftp.debian.org sid main contrib non-free $ apt-get update $ apt-get install module-init-tools grub ppp file
Do this on a un-chrooted terminal...
$ cp /boot/grub/* /mnt/boot/grub/ $ cd /mnt/root $ dpkg-repack kernel-image-2.6.6
Back to the chrooted terminal...
$ dpkg -i /root/kernel-image-* $ grub >root (hd0,0) >setup (hd0) >quit $ update-grub $ vi /etc/fstab >/dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1 >/dev/hda5 swap swap pri=1 0 0 >proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > >devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 >usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
Exit (by typing exit 1 or more times) from the schrooted environment and reboot... good luck. I go off now and install DFS on my AMD Athlon 64bit processor ;-)
# bootstrap from CD $ cdebootstrap -a amd64 sid /mnt file:///opt/packages # bootstrap from the web with cdebootstrap $ cdebootstrap --arch amd64 sid /pure64/ \ http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64/ # bootstrap from the web with the older debbootstrap $ debootstrap --arch amd64 sid /pure64/ \ http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64/ $ base-config
deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 sid main deb-src http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 sid main deb http://bach.hpc2n.umu.se/pure64 sid main deb-src http://bach.hpc2n.umu.se/pure64 sid main deb http://bytekeeper.as28747.net/amd64/alioth/pure64 sid main deb-src http://bytekeeper.as28747.net/amd64/alioth/pure64 sid main deb http://debian.inode.at/pure64/ sid main deb-src http://debian.inode.at/pure64/ sid main deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/pure64/ sid main deb-src ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/pure64/ sid main deb http://ftp.kaist.ac.kr/pub/debian-amd64/pure64/ sid main deb-src http://ftp.kaist.ac.kr/pub/debian-amd64/pure64/ sid main deb http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-amd64/ sid main
Note: For getting i386 binary's working you schould take a look at the chrooted or multiarch methods!
$ cd /mnt/root $ dpkg-repack --arch amd64 kernel-image-2.6.6-amd64
$ apt-get -m install x-window-system $ vi $HOME/.Xsession xterm $ dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 $ apt-get install xfree86-driver-synaptics ??? # test X $ apt-get install enlightenment $ apt-get install e16keyedit $ vi $HOME/.Xsession enlightenment $ apt-get install mozilla-firefox
Note: "64$" means we execute this in the un-chrooted pure 64-bit environment; "32$" means we execute in the chrooted i386 environment.
64$ apt-get install debootstrap 64$ debootstrap --arch i386 sid /var/chroot/sid-ia32 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian 64$ chroot /var/chroot/sid-ia32 32$ vi /etc/apt/sources.list >deb http://http.us.debian.org sid main contrib non-free >deb http://ftp.debian.org sid main contrib non-free >deb-src http://http.us.debian.org sid main contrib non-free >deb-src http://ftp.debian.org sid main contrib non-free 32$ apt-get update 32$ apt-get install libx11-6 64$ vi /etc/ld.so.conf >/usr/X11R6/lib ># chroot i386 system libs >/var/chroot/sid-ia32/lib >/var/chroot/sid-ia32/usr/lib >/var/chroot/sid-ia32/usr/X11R6/lib >/var/chroot/sid-ia32/usr/local/lib 64$ cd /lib 64$ ln -s /var/chroot/sid-ia32/lib/ld-2.3.2.so ld-linux.so.2 64$ ldconfig -v | grep "ld-linux" 64$ vi /etc/fstab ># ia32 chroot >/home /var/chroot/sid-ia32/home none bind 0 0 >/tmp /var/chroot/sid-ia32/tmp none bind 0 0 >proc /var/chroot/sid-ia32/proc proc defaults 0 0 64$ mount /var/chroot/sid-ia32/home 64$ mount /var/chroot/sid-ia32/tmp 64$ mount /var/chroot/sid-ia32/proc 64$ cd /var/chroot/sid-ia32/etc/ 64$ mv passwd passwd.orig 64$ mv shadow shadow.orig 64$ mv group group.orig 64$ cd /etc 64$ ln passwd /var/chroot/sid-ia32/etc/passwd 64$ ln shadow /var/chroot/sid-ia32/etc/shadow 64$ ln group /var/chroot/sid-ia32/etc/group
Everything should work now! To use it at next reboot just to this:
$ chroot /var/chroot/sid-ia32 $ su - youruser $ export DISPLAY=:0 $ your_command
To make things even more simple, check out the dchroot method described in the "debian-amd64-howto". Launching an 32bit app is as simple as this:
$ dchroot -c ia32 -d openoffice
Ain't that livable? ;-)
Now you can get packages like valgrind ("apt-get install gcc g++ make valgrind") from your chroot and devellop for i386.