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On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 14:24 -0400, wireless wrote: |
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> Ned Ludd wrote: |
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> >> Is GNAP and the Google summer of Code going to |
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> >> complete the work on making GNAP current? |
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> >> Any discussion of the GNAP plans are most welcome. |
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> >> I have a bunch of old 486-P1 that I like to |
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> >> put GNAP on for kids and teenagers to use |
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> >> as the basis of projects and experimentation. |
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> >> Lots of this old hardware is everywhere |
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> >> and embedded gentoo on it, makes a lot |
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> >> of sense for teenagers to tinker around with.... |
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> > I think it's safe to say that GNAP is not maintained by anybody on this |
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> > list. gentoo-gnap has a mailing list however. But I'm pretty sure it's |
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> > just dead at this point. |
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> OK. |
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> Does it make sense to try to put embedded gentoo on an old x86 |
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> machine? (486 or 586)? |
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Sure. |
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> If not what embedded nix distro would anyone recommend for these |
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> very old machines, keeping in mind that kids and teenagers will |
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> be playing with them for projects.......? |
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> any suggestions are welcome. |
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export ROOT=$PWD/ROOT |
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export PORTAGE_BINHOST=http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/uclibc/i386/ |
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emerge -G system |
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qmerge -fsv | less ; # (to look at the additional packages) |
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emerge -G <additional packages.> |
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cd ROOT |
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tar jcvf ../ROOTFS-`date -u +%Y%m%d`.tar.bz2 ./ |
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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