Debootstrap HOWTO by glevand (geoffrey.levand@mail.ru) (Redone by snowy)
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Installing Debian Squeeze with debootstrap on petitboot
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- Configuring the base system
1. umount /dev/ps3dd2
2. mkdir /mnt/ubuntu
3. mkfs.ext3 /dev/ps3dd2
4. mount /dev/ps3dd2 /mnt/ubuntu
5. rm -rf /mnt/ubuntu/*
6. debootstrap --arch powerpc natty /mnt/ubuntu http://ports.ubuntu.com
7. mount -t proc none /mnt/ubuntu/proc
8. mount --rbind /dev /mnt/ubuntu/dev
9. LANG=C chroot /mnt/ubuntu /bin/bash
10. export TERM=xterm-color
- Mounting partitions
File /etc/fstab
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/dev/ps3dd2 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/ps3vram none swap sw 0 0
/dev/ps3dd1 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
- Setting timezone
1. vi /etc/default/rcS
2. dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
- Configuring networking
1. echo "Name of your computer here" > /etc/hostname
File /etc/network/interfaces
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auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
File /etc/resolv.conf (cat /etc/resolv.conf, if you see nameservers already skip this step)
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nameserver 192.168.1.1
- Configuring apt
File /etc/apt/sources.list
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deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty main restricted
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty-updates main restricted
deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty-updates restricted
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty universe
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty-updates universe
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty multiverse
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty-updates multiverse
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty-security main restricted
deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty-security main restricted
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty-security universe
deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty-security universe
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty-security multiverse
deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty-security multiverse
1. aptitude update
- Configuring locales and keyboard
1. aptitude install locales
2. dpkg-reconfigure locales
3. aptitude install console-data
4. dpkg-reconfigure console-data
- Finishing touches
1. tasksel install standard
2. aptitude clean
3. passwd
4. aptitude install git build-essentials ncurses-dev
5. mkswap /dev/ps3dd1
6. swapon /dev/ps3dd1
- Installing kernel
1. cd /usr/src
2. git clone git://git.gitbrew.org/ps3/ps3linux/linux-2.6.git
3. ln -sf linux-2.6 linux
4. cd linux
5. cp ps3_linux_config .config
6. make menuconfig
7. make
8. make install
9. make modules_install
If you compile your kernel on PS3 then make sure you activate swap because
compiling kernel needs much RAM. I used /dev/ps3dd1 as swap which
you have to create with fdisk first of course or some other program.
- Creating kboot.conf
1. ls /boot/
2. edit kboot.conf and replace what you see for > vmlinux-2.6.* from below (example. vmlinux-2.6.38-gf77c53d)
File /etc/kboot.conf
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debian_vflash=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.* root=/dev/ps3dd2
debian_vflash_hugepages=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.* root=/dev/ps3dd2 hugepages=1