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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:26:05 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@lsi.com>
To: "Nichols, Chuck" <Chuck.Nichols@lsi.com>
Cc: "Edge, Bruce" <Bruce.Edge@lsi.com>
Subject: Re: Debian distribution questions
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On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:32:19 -0600 "Nichols, Chuck"
<Chuck.Nichols@lsi.com> wrote:

> Bruce,
> 
> I think both scenarios you describe below apply here.  We have some
> people who just want to get started looking at Debian, and others who
> will be starting to put together a package for use in development and
> in the finished product.
> 
> I'm working with the development manager and team leads to figure out
> how they want to move forward on this and whom from the RAID
> Engineering side they would like to be responsible.  Once he's got
> someone identified, I may have a better idea of what "stupid"
> questions we need to ask regarding getting started with Linux
> development.  We're still a bit wobbly on this Linux work, so we're
> going to be learning on the fly.
> 
> -Chuck
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Edge, Bruce
> Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 4:06 PM
> To: Sharp, Andy
> Cc: Nichols, Chuck
> Subject: Re: Debian distribution questions
> 
> 
> On 10/15/2009 01:22 PM, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:44:11 -0600 "Nichols, Chuck"
> <Chuck.Nichols@lsi.com><mailto:Chuck.Nichols@lsi.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Andy, Bruce,
> 
> Before I spring an unsolicited meeting request on you, I wanted to
> see if the two of you could support a short meeting with a couple of
> the RAID engineering folks about the best way to download, build,
> etc. the Debian Linux images, or alternatively, if you have one
> packaged up somewhere that the RAID team could use for the time being.
> 
> I'm not asking you for a lot of detailed support for this work, just
> some basics to get the ball rolling, I think.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chuck
> 
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.debian.org/distrib/
> 
> No one has put together a filesystem yet (that I know of), so they
> will have to pick which packages they want and like that.  Should be
> pretty easy.
> 
> 
> What's the goal?
> 1) Install debian on some development machines.
> This is the basic starting point regardless of the goal. You need
> some Debian systems for development. You can use the preseeding to
> create install CDs that preconfigure everything you want for the
> default install.
> 
> 2) Build up a debian filesystem that can be chrooted for clean room
> development. This is what we use for development. We use pbuilder to
> build up root filesystems that we chroot into for building and can
> also be NFS booted for testing.

Sheesh, you guys are soarfistikated or something.  I think I need to
send my build guy down to your house for some classes.  Or maybe just
me.

> Not sure if this is what you were after.
> 
> -Bruce
> 
> 
> 
> 
