OK, here are the steps to make a installer/recovery disk and install F13
on Yeeloong netbook.
First, get the debian6 Loongson recovery disk from bbs.lemote.org[1].
For example, 20100627.tar.bz2, untar it to the root of a USB disk.
Second, get Fai Wong's F13 rootfs[2]. For example,
fedora-13-n32-rootfs-20100710.tar.gz. Rename it to
loongson2-fedora-13-n32-rootfs-20100710.tar.gz and put to the root of
the same USB disk as above. For saving space,
loongson2-debian6-*.tar.lzma can be deleted.
Then you get the recovery/installer disk for Yeeloong. Plug the disk
into yeeloong before it powers on, and press Tab on PMON loading, then
follow the screen instructions, the recovery procedure starts. Caution:
all data on the disk of Yeeloong will lost during the recovery.
After the installation is completed, the Yeeloong is rebooted. Press DEL
when PMON is loading to get the PMON> prompt. enter the following:
load (wd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.35-85.fc13.mips64el
g console=tty root=/dev/hda2
Hold your breath to wait for the welcome message =)
After Fedora is booted, login to it, and then modify /boot/boot.cfg as
the following:
title Fedora 13
kernel (wd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.35-85.fc13.mips64el
args console=tty root=/dev/hda2
Save and reboot. Done.
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It's a preliminary installer, I know, far more from perfect. However can
be a start for interested people to work with Fedora-MIPS. Next, provide
them a Yum repository, then we can expect contributors to appear.
[1] Debian6 quick installer:
http://www.bjlx.org.cn/node/751 by Liu
Shiwei.
http://www.anheng.com.cn/loongson/
[2] Fai's rootfs:
http://lazyfai.dyndns.org/Fedora-13-rootfs-MIPS/
Thank you for the hard work.