Re: [uml-user] Debian install instructions

[henrique <hen...@fu...>]

Great stuff!

Currently I have one with ~400 Mb with a lot of pkgs,   
and I am downsizing it for suiting a 'busybox'-based fs.


I also find very interesting the following commands to
cleanup large root file-systems prepared.

Example: do not care for other dependencies:
=> dpkg --force-all --auto-deconfigure --remove tk8.4



A very useful hint for installing:
UML running inside intranet, access through SQUID on 192.168.0.1,
add line in /etc/apt/apt.conf:
=> Acquire::http::Proxy "http://192.168.0.1:3128";
and ignore cache limits:
=> APT::Cache-Limit 10000000;

And another for selecting 'testing' pkgs, at /etc/apt/sources.list:
=> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
=> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib

...and expanding the 'dpkg -l' command...
	COLUMNS=100 dpkg -l


For UML, an interesting way of avoiding HW access to clock,
thus some anoying warnings:
	/etc/default/rcS:

	# Do not use hardware clock in UML to avoid small warnings
	HWCLOCKACCESS=no   <==<==

Good woody for all!





> > I found that instructions for installing Debian under UML were a bit
> > thin on the ground, so I wrote some:
> > 
> > 	http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/debian-uml-install.html
> 
> I put this together recently. what do you think?
> 
> http://uml.pimb.org/howto/#uml-debian-install