How to create a Debian 2.1 (code name slink) system for compiling binaries for LRP.

Use the Debian CD that comes with O'Reilly's book "Learning Debian GNU/Linux"
by Bill McCarty, ISBN Number 1-56592-705-2

Boot up using the Debian 2.1 CD and install Debian Linux.
When asked to select packages, don't select anything, just choose "Quit".

vi   /etc/apt/sources.list add a line:
deb   http://archive.debian.org/ slink main contrib non-free
then comment out all three (3) lines that begin with deb.
(reason: you may need some files from the archive some day in the future)

vi   /dev/fstab add a line:
/dev/cdrom  /cdrom  iso9660  ro  0  0

apt-cdrom  add
apt-get   update
apt-get   ugprade

apt-get  install  gcc g++ make m4 man-db less mc perl automake bison file gdb gettext patch

optional:
use ftp to get some LRP-friendly binaries and store them in /usr/bin
ncftp scp sftp (and chmod them to 755)

get zlib source code from http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
uncompress the zlib tarball,
./configure -s --prefix=/usr
make
make install

cd /usr/local/bin create a sym link
ln -s /usr/bin/perl perl

You now have a system that can compile binaries from c source for LRP.

To compile dhcp-2.0pl5 source from www.isc.org
make a modification: (this modification will cause problem when compiling BIND)

fetch kernel 2.2.12, save tarball in /usr/src
cd /usr/src
tar zxvf kernel-2.2.12.tar.gz
cd /usr/include - add two symlinks:
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 asm
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux

© 2003-2004 Nicholas Fong

Revised: February 26, 2004