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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/debian_installer.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/debian_installer.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 37dcc72d..00000000 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/debian_installer.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,46 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled -[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!meta title="Port the Debian Installer to the Hurd"]] - -[!] Jérémie Koenig has been working on this as a [[Google Summer of Code -2010|2010]] project. - ---- - -The primary means of distributing the Hurd is through Debian GNU/Hurd. -However, the installation CDs presently use an ancient, non-native installer. -The situation could be much improved by making sure that the newer *Debian -Installer* works on the Hurd. - -Some preliminary work has been done, see -<http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Hurd>. - -The goal is to have the Debian Installer fully working on the Hurd. It -requires relatively little Hurd-specific knowledge. - -A lot of the "non-Linux support" part of the project has already been done thanks to a previous GSoC, so at least no ground reason should bar the project. A lot of the required udebs are already in Debian or are pending upload, so that building an image and booting it does already work. A preliminary list of what remains is - - * Add initrd support to GNU Mach, unless youpi does it before :) This should not be very complicated by re-using the iopl driver code. - * hurdify genext2fs to handle 4096 block size by default (see bug #562999) and support translator entries. - * Port busybox. This needs to be synchronized with kfreebsd people, who have probably already done some work, but that seemingly still hasn't been merged. In the meanwhile, youpi has a version with most of it disabled so a d-i image can actually be built. - * Port keyboard-setup to configure the xkb driver of the Hurd console - -As a starting point to get a grasp at how the debian installer is built, students might wish to look at the current Debian installer source and build process on Linux: - - * svn co svn://svn.debian.org/d-i/trunk/installer/ - * cd installer/build - * make build_monolithic - -The same can be done on hurd-i386 but a few non-uploaded packages are needed, see http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/README-d-i - -Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi) - -Exercise: Fix a couple of Hurd issues in busybox. |