Download link: http://images.dexxon.cn/debian/ (you need to get both archive)

European mirror: http://share.instinctive.eu/gdium/

Making a brutal dd actually takes quite some bandwidth and leaves little flexibility to the partitioning so the downloaded archive are just tarballs of the root and /home partitions of the image. So to install, please proceed as follow:

(assuming the future Debian GKey is sdb on the machine where the downloaded archives are)

Partition the GKey using the following scheme (or something similar, The root file system is put on the second partition to avoid PMON reconfiguration when switching between Mandriva and Debian:

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1        1000     1023984   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb2            1001        7750     6912000   83  Linux
/dev/sdb3            7751       14501     6913024   83  Linux

Initialize the partitions:

mkswap /dev/sdb1
mke2fs /dev/sdb2
mke2fs /dev/sdb3

Copy the data to /dev/sb2:

mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt
tar xvpfj gdium_lenny_sda2_07022009.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/
umount /mnt

Copy the data to /dev/sb3

mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt
tar xvpfj gdium_lenny_sda3_07022009.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/
umount /mnt

The gdium user and the root passwords are both 123

That should do it, you can now plug the GKey into the Gdium and boot Debian. The swap won't be activated, you will have to rerun mkswap to have it:

mkswap /dev/sda1

If the system does not boot, change the karg and al settings in your Gdium pmon to the following (use eset al and eset karg to edit the values):

al=/dev/fs/ext2@usbg0/boot/vmlinux.32
karg=console=tty1 root=/dev/sda2 rootwait video=sm501fb:1024x600@60 init=/sbin/finit-mdv

Those two values are compatible with Mandriva's GLinux.

Feedback's welcome

A LOT!

• Contact Sha Liu and ask him to report his progress here
• Improve the system (many things are not supported)
• Set the project on the Gdium bug tracker