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

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 02:45:09PM +0200, Stefan Fiedler wrote:
> The most elegant solution I think would be to use a Rock Live-CD to boot and 
> run the Rock scripts from. Sadly there is no such ISO image available for 
> download as far as I know, but maybe other Rock developers/users  will 
> create/upload such an image if you ask them kindly enough ;-) I don't have a 
> PPC so I would have to make some handstands to build for PPC - install a PPC 
> emulator, install and setup a PPC Linux on it and build using this emulated 
> system. 

http://iso.rocklinux.de/rock-ftp/unofficial/fake/livecd-powerpc-604e-rev4392.iso

> There are however Rock Desktop images for PPC available at 
>  http://www.rocklinux.org/powerpc.html
> Disadvantages are that they are more than 9 months old, rather large (3 
> CD-sets each) and they require to be installed on your hard disk (not 
> completely though - you can install just the packages you need).
> There may be smaller PPC Linux distros available that allow to build a Rock 
> distribution with no/minor adaptations, but according to the Wikipedia 
> (Keyword Live-CD) "gcc and make [have not] not yet [been] seen in any PPC 
> live CD".

uh. so perhaps our live cd is the first? i don't know. regrettably i
don't own any PPC hardware neither. so i can't make PPC stable releases
for now :-/

regards,
th
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> 
> Yours,
> Stefan Fiedler
> 
> >
> > Please if you can last help form me..
> >
> > Marco
> >
> > On Oct 11, 2004, at 6:00 PM, Stefan Fiedler wrote:
> > > 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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