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From: Michael <mycroes@××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Suitable Email Client - was FAQ / How To?
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:38:46
Message-Id: 43D54C74.1070603@zonnet.nl
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-embedded] Suitable Email Client - was FAQ / How To? by Dennis Taylor
1 I think Thunderbird would do... Good question you asked btw!
2 Greetings,
3
4 Michael
5
6 Dennis Taylor wrote:
7
8 >It must be the email client. Please do not flame me, but for email, I
9 >am stuck with MS Windows. Does anyone have a suggestion of a client
10 >that I can put on Windows to enable me to comply with this very
11 >reasonable request?
12 >
13 >
14 >-----Original Message-----
15 >From: solar [mailto:solar@g.o]
16 >Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:21 PM
17 >To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
18 >Subject: RE: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To?
19 >
20 >Please stop creating a brand new thread for every post when it's really
21 >a RE: to an existing thread. If it's your email client doing it then
22 >please install a functional one.
23 >
24 >
25 >On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 15:45 -0500, Dennis Taylor wrote:
26 >
27 >
28 >>Well, I blew that one. I decided to start over just in case I had
29 >>missed something. Unfortunately, I failed to umount portage before I
30 >>did rm -rf on the staging area. Now, I do not have /usr/portage.
31 >>Some days are like that. :-(
32 >>
33 >>Does anyone know if it is possible to recover just portage without
34 >>starting all over?
35 >>
36 >>-----Original Message-----
37 >>From: Heath Holcomb [mailto:liquidcable@×××××.com]
38 >>Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 1:32 PM
39 >>To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
40 >>Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To?
41 >>
42 >>I wrote the how-to. I haven't built a system in several weeks, so
43 >>portage has changed a bit (and ebuilds). I plan on updating the
44 >>how-to in a week or two, if I discover new problems (looks like there
45 >>are some).
46 >>
47 >>--
48 >>heath holcomb
49 >>liquidcable at bulah.com
50 >>www.bulah.com
51 >>
52 >>On Monday 23 January 2006 12:28, Dennis Taylor wrote:
53 >>
54 >>
55 >>>Having followed the other link to
56 >>>http://www.bulah.com/embedded-guide.html, which seems to be more up
57 >>>to
58 >>>
59 >>>
60 >>>date, am still having problems. At step 3 I get the following
61 >>>
62 >>>
63 >>response.
64 >>
65 >>
66 >>>clwsapp07 root # ROOT=/embedded_rootfs emerge -K uclibc Calculating
67 >>>dependencies !!! There are no packages available to satisfy:
68 >>>
69 >>>
70 >"uclibc"
71 >
72 >
73 >>>!!! Either add a suitable binary package or compile from an ebuild.
74 >>>
75 >>>I thought all the previous steps went OK. Even some of the
76 >>>workarounds seem to no longer be needed. Any ideas?
77 >>>
78 >>>
79 >>>
80 >>>________________________________
81 >>>
82 >>>From: Joshua ChaitinPollak [mailto:jpollak@×××××××××××.com]
83 >>>Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:16 AM
84 >>>To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
85 >>>Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To?
86 >>>
87 >>>
88 >>>This is what I use:
89 >>>
90 >>>http://www.bulah.com/embeddedgentoo.html
91 >>>
92 >>>My installation is 6 mb, since I'm installing into 32 mb, I haven't
93 >>>tried too hard to pair it down. I'm installing on Soekris net4526
94 >>>boards. Keep in mind there are somethings you can do after you build
95 >>>
96 >>>
97 >
98 >
99 >
100 >>>you filesystem with Gentoo to make the install even smaller:
101 >>>
102 >>>Remove /usr/include
103 >>>Remove all .keep files
104 >>>Audit the rest of the file system for unnecessary files, expecially
105 >>>/etc and /var
106 >>>
107 >>>I have a series of scripts I've written to automate the process
108 >>>described in the above howto, and I would like to publish them
109 >>>shortly, but please don't hold your breath. :)
110 >>>
111 >>>-Josh
112 >>>
113 >>>On Jan 20, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Dennis Taylor wrote:
114 >>>
115 >>>
116 >>> I have tried various ways of building a root fs with uClibc, but
117 >>>
118 >>>
119 >>to
120 >>
121 >>
122 >>>no avail. I have monitored this list long enough to know that
123 >>>someone
124 >>>
125 >>>
126 >>>out there has done it. I need to do it for and X86 target that must
127 >>>
128 >>>
129 >
130 >
131 >
132 >>>fit in about 1.5 MB of flash that gets copied to RAM and started.
133 >>>
134 >>>
135 >>> The "out of the box" configuration I linked to from the uClibc
136 >>>
137 >>>
138 >>site
139 >>
140 >>
141 >>>fails in various ways. I like the Gentoo way of doing things, but
142 >>>the
143 >>>
144 >>>
145 >>>HOWTO link I saved a while back does not work.
146 >>>
147 >>> Any pointers to documents that would help me succeed would be
148 >>>
149 >>>
150 >>greatly
151 >>
152 >>
153 >>>appreciated.
154 >>>
155 >>> Dennis Taylor
156 >>>
157 >>>
158 >>--
159 >>gentoo-embedded@g.o mailing list
160 >>
161 >>
162 >>
163 >>
164 >>
165 >>
166 >--
167 >solar <solar@g.o>
168 >Gentoo Linux
169 >
170 >--
171 >gentoo-embedded@g.o mailing list
172 >
173 >
174 >
175 >
176 >
177 >
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