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* The default debian browser (konquerer if I recall correctly) will not indicate progress while installing
* Apache status is not displayed correctly in servers tab
* only a few packages are available (if any) I tested phpsysinfo, hello-world and wakkiwiki. Not sure what is available to others and what has been assigned to me as tester.
=Requirements=
* A system to install things on. This system must support debian and have the needed resources. I've assumed the system has a network connection, but it will undoubtly be possible to get things working with an installation disk and some data transfer with USB disks.
* Some experience in installing things. This also depends on the way you want to install things (see below)
* Ambition to help improving things and a lot of tolerance against problems; The current version is far from finished.
=Tested platforms=
This section lists the platforms on which this was tested.
Feel free to add your platform.
* OpenRD Client (primary development platform, armv5tel)
* SheevaPlug (same SoC as OpenRD Client, but more readily available)
* x86 virtual machine under Xen.
=Installation=
Currenty there are three different ways to install the system. They are listed in order of difficulty, simplest first, most difficult but most flexible last.
Note that the last two ways assume that you install Debian yourself.
Please note that is is far from complete so do not attempt to install this:
* on systems with other valuable data
* if you feel uncomfortable with Linux
* if you have a low threshold against bugs
Most of this was tested on SheevaPlug and OpenRD client. Some tests have also been done on an x86 virtual machine under Xen.
==Installation using an image file==
==Installation using prebuilt packages==
Currently this is only supported on arm little endian (armel) hardware and only tested on armv5tel. You need to install debian on your platform. No special packages are needed. E.g. when installing on a system without a display there is no need to install a graphical desktop. There are two things to keep in mind:When being asked for a mysql root password, leave the password empty (actually you might get this question more than once). Also I opted for automatically start hddtemp. to be writtenfinished
==Installation using the sources==
to be written
