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

On Oct 11, 2004, at 1:48 PM, Benjamin Schieder wrote:

>> 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

  swapon and mkswap aren't recognizable in Apple OS X (10.3.5) 
filesystem terminal. Suggestions??
>
>> 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.

  Ok download it and then recompile..
>
> 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 :-)

  Beatufil!!. I hope to do the same goals. But please do you have, if 
possible, more specify guideline to follow for a solution/target ppc?? 
Link as to make teh swap under mac, etc etc
>
>
> HTH,
> 	blindy

  kindly regard
>
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