Dear developers,
after a first attempt last year I tried to install ROCK Linux a second time
a couple of days ago. However, I failed.
I tried:
The source install using the scripts. But I don't have a running ROCK system
that I could use as a build host. So I tried to run ./scripts/Config on my
SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional, but the script gave hundreds of error messages
and finally aborted with an "unknown error code 127".
Ok, maybe that's something to be blamed on SuSE, and so I tried to get one
of the target distributions installed. However, I had no success with any of
them. All versions I tried got stuck somewhere. Either some necessary
packages weren't found, or LILO/GRUB could not be installed for some reason
I don't know (no error message, stone disappeared immediately), or I had
messages like "Too many symbolic link levels".
This happened with all the ISO images I was able to get:
rock-minimal-2.0.0 rev 2366 Pentium MMX
dRock 2.0.0 rev2490 Pentium MMX
dRock 2.0.1 unoffical Athlon XP (which is what I actually have as CPU)
Despite Rene Rebe's book (excellent effort, BTW) I was so far unable to get
a ROCK system installed. No ROCK, no ROCK build host, no ROCK in turn.
As ROCK appeals me still by far the most among all known source-based
Linuces (yes, I know, it's not only a Linux, but also GNU/Hurd and so on,
and it's not a distro and so on...) I'd still be interested to find a way to
get it running on my machine.
I'd be grateful if someone just could tell me, how!
Let me suggest two things here, that might help to make ROCK a lot more
popular:
- Provide two target distros, dROCK and minimal eg, that are well tested and
dont't give confusing error messages.
- Provide these two ISOs compiled with support for older CPUs (possibly you
do this already, but it's not documented anywhere). Eg, Slackware is
optimised for i686, but still runs on i486.
A ROCK user with more modern hardware will just run the right scripts in
order to download and compile everything from sources, once he has a running
system. Therefore it is, IMHO, a good idea, especially for a distro (yes, I
know...;-) ) like ROCK to provide a starting environment with the lowest
possible prerequisites on the users' side.
Thanks for listening. ;-)
Alex
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