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Ned Ludd wrote: |
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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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OK |
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Directly on the old machine, |
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use this after booting from what image/media? |
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Or does this give me extra detail specific to |
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a 386 arch, using the gentoo-embedded-handbook? |
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I'm looking for a well documented, easy proceedure, |
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so I can let the kids perform the installation, while |
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I hang out and help those that get stuck, or have |
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broken hardware. Kinda a class for embedded beginers |
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sorta approach. All of the embedded gentoo project |
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I have done, all seem to be a "random_walk" type |
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of process. That's what appealed to me with |
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GNAP.......... |
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James |
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