Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 15:57:12 -0600 (GMT) From: Sean Welch <welchsm@earthlink.net> To: Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Re: Also interested in testing Message-ID: <4272482.1046044671016.JavaMail.nobody@grover.psp.pas.earthlink.net>
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Cool -- does this mean the modem is functional then with
userland ppp (ie, traditional hayes command etc)? I'm
itching to trying some of this stuff, but I'm hung up on
my installworld...
For some reason the installworld is refusing to handle
the /usr/src/include directory correctly. The command
I run is as follows:
make DESTDIR=/data/ppc installworld
It gets hung up telling me (apparently) that
/data/ppc/usr/include does not exist even though it
does. Stranger still, if I run:
make DESTDIR=/data/ppc install
under /usr/src/include it all installs just fine.
Problem is, the installworld starts over and I'm stuck
again.
Before I ran into this problem I found that I also
had to manually create /data/ppc/usr/share/info/dir or
the install quit telling me the directory didn't exist.
Am I missing something here that I should be doing?
Sean
-------Original Message-------
From: Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.org>
Sent: 02/23/03 05:30 PM
To: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org
Subject: Re: Also interested in testing
>
> On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 02:16, Sean Welch wrote:
> Okay -- so the modem is accessible via a com port on
> the older iBook? I looked up the support on OpenBSD's
> site and found that the USB attached modem is only for
> newer G4 systems (powerbooks).
Yep, it'll be attached to one of the zs interfaces, most likely ttya.
ttyb is generally infrared.
[snip]
> I went looking around for info on net booting and
> cross-compiling last night but didn't have much luck on
> the latter. I found the following for net booting:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/
PXE isn't what the Macs use, but it works in a similar way. You need a
DHCP server, a TFTP server and an NFS server.
> I think I can puzzle out how to set up one for ppc based
> on this info. I also found this:
>
> http://jeamland.net/~benno/powerpc-boot.txt
>
> Combined with the extensive OF descriptions on the NetBSD
> site I should be able to get it to netboot. Question:
> Does the above link reflect a netboot from /home/spangle
> with a "complete" install under it? In other words, is
> there a complete directory tree such as one usually found
> hanging off / underneath /home/spangle? If so, how is
> this accomplished? I once did a source upgrade (from
> 4.5-RELEASE to 4.6-RC #4) but I don't recall an option
> to install to a nonstandard location...
Yes, that's precisely what I've got in that setup. The way you install
somewhere other than / is to do:
make <other args> DESTDIR=<target dir> installworld
The same works for installkernel.
> Finally, I wasn't able to find anything helpful for
> cross-compiling at all. The closest I got was an
> archived email about problems cross-compiling for apha
> on a pc but there wasn't much detail. Could someone
> here point me to a comprehensive guide or give me
> specific instructions? I figure while I'm trying to
> get the new drive in and partitioned and working on
> setup for netbooting I can at least get started trying
> to compile the code base. Any problems with compiling
> under 5.0-RELEASE I should be aware of? (Don't really
> want to upgrade the Dell while I'm trying to get the
> ppc code runnning with code from CURRENT)
You won't be able to build a complete world with 5.0-RELEASE. If you
check out the current source tree you should have a better time of it,
especially if you use the flags that I posted previously (modulo
grehan's changes).
> I've noticed OF bears a striking resemblance to Sun's
> OpenBootProm; does this extend to dropping you down to
> an OF prompt on Apple after executing a halt? Just
> curious...
They're both implementations of IEEE1275 OpenFirmware.
--
Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.org>
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