Re: [rock-user] Small distribution for PPC platform..

> Hello list, 
Hi.

> Paranoia Check: No active swap partition found! 
> That can cause the build scripts to hang your system!. Activate 
> a swap partition using the 'swapon' command and try again. 
You really should create a swap partition or file.
Compiling something - especially whole distribution - will require an awful
lot of memory. So unless you have like 2GB RAM do this:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1M count=512
# mkswap /swap
# swapon /swap

> Paranoia Check: Program 'mktemp' not found or too old! 
> You need an 'mktemp' installed which does know about the -p 
> option. Install the latest mktemp version. 
This is really necessary! You need a recent mktemp because that is used
a lot in the ROCK scripts.

do the following:

# tar xf --use-compress-program=bzip download/mirror/m/mktemp*
# cd mktemp*
# ./configure --prefix=/usr
# make
# make install

That should get you going.
If you _really_ want to disable the Paranoia Checks (NOT RECOMMENDED) activate
the expert options in ./scripts/Config and then you will find the switch for
Paranoia Checks as one of the last options in the menu.

> b - sorry i am absolute new to build the rocklinux engine; my goals is 
> to make a simple distro PPC target, 50-60MB to stay inside a small 
> PenDrive as emergency tools (diagnostics, security bla bla). If this 
> isn't possible could be good the normal procedure with regular CD. 

This should be possible. I've managed to get a system with X and mplayer into
25 MB :-)


HTH,
	blindy

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