Text 11877, 75 rader
Skriven 2008-10-11 20:17:52 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
  Kommentar till text 11875 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
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Hello Maurice.

09 Oct 08 18:55, you wrote to me:

 MK> The flashdrive idea is an excellent plan.  I've noticed the prices
 MK> dropping dramatically on them but can't speak about the quality of the
 MK> cheaper ones.  Mind you if you buy cheaper ones then you can easily
 MK> make up a couple of backup disks since these are easily changed when
 MK> needed. 64M is more than ample.  I can build one that uses regular
 MK> packages and squeeze it onto a 32M one ... or at least I used to be
 MK> able to do that. The newer 2.6 kernels with modules from hell might
 MK> force me to upgrade up to 64M.  Just checking it out as I built a new
 MK> i386 development system with linux-2.6.26.6 headers, gcc-4.3.2 etc.
 MK> Everything is up to speed with my latest 64-bit builds.  Looks great
 MK> so far.

Hmmm ....

 >> Been thinking, if I can get the thing to boot, then I should be able
 >> to compile those and get them to work on there without too much
 >> trouble

 MK> If I were you I wouldn't bother with any of that.  A router doesn't
 MK> need any of that.  Sounds to me like you want a server that can take
 MK> care of routing issues.  Also it sounds like you also want it to
 MK> develop it's own packages which means gcc and friends.  If so then
 MK> you'll need a bigger drive where you can chroot into and make this so.
 MK> Offhand I'd guesstimate a 6G drive out to be able to handle the whole
 MK> shebang, including source, archived packages, scripts, etc.  Currently
 MK> I have a 10G partition allocated for i386 development and that is
 MK> definetly overkill. However I have the space and enjoy the extra elbow
 MK> room just in case I want to bloat it with GUI crap.  You just never
 MK> know for sure.

Actually, I want a router that can act as a dhcpd server, and can do some 
fancy blocking of both in and outbound traffic, then I want a Fido server that 
can do ftp/binkp/pots, and look after itself, if it has to get connected 
directly to the internet, and having a server/setup that can build packages 
for this, would make life simpler, even better if I could build packages on 
any Linux box I have ....

 >> Just checked, and I still have the build scripts I got from you last
 >> time, but seem to have lost the part where you describe how you work
 >> the chroot build system ...

 MK> I just finished a new one and made some slight modifications to the
 MK> chrooting part.  The older stuff will probably work great but seeing
 MK> you lost my schpiel on chrooting to it you may want the new stuff. I
 MK> have based it on some slightly modified Slackware package tools and am
 MK> including those as part of the new chroot system.  I could easily put
 MK> together a tarball of the new system and then you could drop in the
 MK> source into there when ready.  Also will put together a script that
 MK> will automagically chroot from your root account on your regular
 MK> system. As is the actual system comes in at around 150M and includes
 MK> c++ which you may or may not need/want depending on how far you want
 MK> to take this. It is already beyond what I'd normally do but can easily
 MK> be used to create what I normally create for flashdisks ... or any
 MK> other disks for that matter.  My guess is you want it ALL!!!  ;-)

I'll take every thing ... , with much thanks ... :-))

 MK> With all the source and scripts it sits at 425M as we speak.  Not too
 MK> shabby in comparison to other distributions these days.

Not to shabby at all ...

 MK> I am calling it MinimaLinux-i386.  It is a hodgepodge of ideas with
 MK> Slackware package management.  I like it.

Sounds good enough ... <VBG>

Russell

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