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

On Monday 11 October 2004 15:55, Mailing by GSoftware wrote:
> 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??

If I get it right from reading some pages about MacOS X, it automatically 
creates new swap files (very similar to swap partitions, but a bit slower) 
when needed. So you probably can ignore the warning and disable the Paranoia 
Check after the other issues (mktemp) are solved. But remember if your 
computer runs out of memory (= no more swap available) it will HANG (very 
unpleasant if you have any important applications running).

Have fun,
Stefan Fiedler

>
> >> 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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