Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Heath Holcomb <hholcomb@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] baselayout
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 22:04:37
Message-Id: 200404291704.14536.hholcomb@txdigital.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] baselayout by Jason Grimm
1 Don't know if that was intentional, but that that post
2 (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=83983&highlight=compact+flash) you
3 listed was by posted by me.
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6 Heath Holcomb
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8 On Thursday 29 April 2004 04:13 pm, you wrote:
9 > Just got on the lists and irc a couple of weeks ago, but I to have noticed
10 > that activity is light. I'm developing on the Soekris 45xx platform with
11 > mini-pci and pcmcia wireless cards and 128 Mb compact flash. I've had luck
12 > with monobsd and debian who both have concentrations in embedded
13 > initiatives. Gentoo is my distro of choice however and I'm anxious to get
14 > something going with that. I've been trying to build from scratch and
15 > possibly adapt some of the disk on chip stuff that's mentioned in this post
16 > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=83983&highlight=compact+flash but
17 > am having little success, mostly due to being unfamiliar with ulibc or how
18 > to squeeze down gentoo to fit and force all the heavy read write into
19 > ramdisks or tempfs. If I had a starting point, like a baselayout or build,
20 > I could report back a lot of information to the group in tailoring for the
21 > Soekris platform, but left to my own it will probably take me months.
22 >
23 > Also, is there anyway to access this mailing lists archives, I didn't see a
24 > link anywhere on the gentoo site to get to the archives.
25 >
26 > Thanks,
27 >
28 > Jason
29 > ----- Original Message -----
30 > From: <david@×××××××××.com>
31 > To: "Heath Holcomb" <hholcomb@×××××××××.com>
32 > Cc: <gentoo-embedded@l.g.o>
33 > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 5:03 PM
34 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] baselayout
35 >
36 > > On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 03:09:51PM -0500, Heath Holcomb wrote:
37 > > > Has there been any progress in getting a baselayout out?
38 > >
39 > > there is a baselayout-lite. I've been using it for weeks, and it is
40 > > in portage(although ~x86)
41 > >
42 > > > It's been really quite here, has development slowed or stopped?
43 > >
44 > > Slowed a bit, but mostly people are active on irc. I think soon we
45 > > should have some documentation out about what has been written lately.
46 > >
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48 > > gentoo-embedded@g.o mailing list
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