Text 12999, 93 rader
Skriven 2009-07-26 20:04:44 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
  Kommentar till text 12997 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
Ärende: ravished my body, lord, and messed with my head
=======================================================
Hello Maurice.

25 Jul 09 18:07, you wrote to me:

 MK> Put another way, I don't want/need either/or.  ftp still is best no
 MK> matter what.

I'd rather do without, but circumstances dictate otherwise ... :-(

 >> just installed Slack 12.2 to the PIII-1GHz box here, and it
 >> does not want to boot

 MK> Ouch!  I've had some issues with their kernels.  Same with e2fsprogs
 MK> in the past.  How did you install it?

Was a kernel issue ... :-((

Now working great, just I have run out of "ports" on my switch, so I cannot 
connect it to the network ...

 >> You think gcc-4.4.1 would be doable on a PIII 1GHz with 512M RAM?

 MK> It now runs on a celron-m with 512M of ram (eeepc) so I'd say for
 MK> sure! It was a hassel getting it up to speed but now it has a usb hot
 MK> swapping development drive deticated to pure 32 bit processors.  A p3
 MK> should even be better especially with a matrox onboard.  If you want I
 MK> could build you a system that could be installed to a hd and booted.
 MK> It'll be tricky to get the first install working but once booted it
 MK> should be free and clear of stinkin' backwards compatibilty to
 MK> abandonware although even that could work if you care about backwards
 MK> compatibilty with abandonware at all.  <EG>

It would be appreciated if you could build such a system, but I will keep on 
bashing a similar goal this side ...

 >> bluedot linux is hassling me

 MK> What killed me was getting the eeepc to behave.  I am convinced glibc
 MK> was where it was out of sync and once I escaped from the main
 MK> root/boot by chrooting into the usb drive I created on the Xeon guy
 MK> especially for 32 bit processors then everything ran perfectly,
 MK> including gmp.  :-)

Hmmm ... , okay, just want to figure an easy way of loading stuff onto my 
server box'es anonymous FTP server, then figure out which/whose system I am 
going to orphan from the network, and I'll give bluedot linux a bash on the 
PIII, it just to-day got a 160Gig. HDD, a present from my step-son ... , he 
just put a 500Gig. replacement in his box .... , I am not complaining ... :-)


 MK> The step by step brute force method proved itself again.  I made sure
 MK> by building ALL the packages, including it's own kernel, on the eeepc
 MK> and everything worked.  Paul witnessed the successful gcc-4.4.1
 MK> build/packaging thingy when he was here for coffee.  The eeepc belongs
 MK> to him.  If that can pull this off then anything can.  Need to have an
 MK> upgraded glibc-2.10.1 first.

Maybe a PIII build will fix that problem ...

 MK> While we're on the subject, wireless works again with linux-2.6.30.3
 MK> which was just released today.  I am now upgrading the Xeon - pure 64
 MK> bit - and plan to upgrade the 32 bit dealie later.  The eeepc has an
 MK> ath5k and on the Xeon an ath9k but also tested the zd1211rw (usb) and
 MK> it works too.  So after all this is settled the Atom is next.  It is
 MK> using zd1211rw as we speak but with my last successful 64 bit build.
 MK> It wants the good stuff!!!

Hmmm ... , wireless is something that has fallen behind here ...

 MK> See the sticky post about /etc/profile.d/cstuff.sh.  That is how I
 MK> started forcing this issue.  It works great.

unset HOST ARCH CC CXX CFLAGS CXXFLAGS CPPFLAGS
if [ -x /usr/bin/gcc ]; then
  export HOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu"
  export ARCH="i386"
  export CC="gcc -m32"
  export CFLAGS="-Os -march=i486"
  export JOBS="-j 8"
fi
if [ -x /usr/bin/g++ ]; then
  export CXX="g++ -m32"
  export CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=i486"
  export CPPFLAGS="-Os -march=i486"
fi

I take it as a given that JOBS=" -j 8" should be reduced to "1" on the PIII, 
and can be bumped up to "2" on the P4 with hyperthreading?

Russell

--- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5
 * Origin: Rusty's BBS - Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa (5:7105/1)