Dennis Taylor wrote:
> It must be the email client. Please do not flame me, but for email, I
> am stuck with MS Windows. Does anyone have a suggestion of a client
> that I can put on Windows to enable me to comply with this very
> reasonable request?
Mozilla has a very simple email client that is pretty easy to
configure and it runs on linux/bsd/windoz...
James
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: solar [mailto:solar@g.o]
> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:21 PM
> To: gentoo-embedded@g.o
> Subject: RE: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To?
>
> Please stop creating a brand new thread for every post when it's really
> a RE: to an existing thread. If it's your email client doing it then
> please install a functional one.
>
>
> On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 15:45 -0500, Dennis Taylor wrote:
>
>>Well, I blew that one. I decided to start over just in case I had
>>missed something. Unfortunately, I failed to umount portage before I
>>did rm -rf on the staging area. Now, I do not have /usr/portage.
>>Some days are like that. :-(
>>
>>Does anyone know if it is possible to recover just portage without
>>starting all over?
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Heath Holcomb [mailto:liquidcable@...]
>>Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 1:32 PM
>>To: gentoo-embedded@g.o
>>Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To?
>>
>>I wrote the how-to. I haven't built a system in several weeks, so
>>portage has changed a bit (and ebuilds). I plan on updating the
>>how-to in a week or two, if I discover new problems (looks like there
>>are some).
>>
>>--
>>heath holcomb
>>liquidcable at bulah.com
>>www.bulah.com
>>
>>On Monday 23 January 2006 12:28, Dennis Taylor wrote:
>>
>>>Having followed the other link to
>>>http://www.bulah.com/embedded-guide.html, which seems to be more up
>>>to
>>
>>>date, am still having problems. At step 3 I get the following
>>
>>response.
>>
>>>clwsapp07 root # ROOT=/embedded_rootfs emerge -K uclibc Calculating
>>>dependencies !!! There are no packages available to satisfy:
>
> "uclibc"
>
>>>!!! Either add a suitable binary package or compile from an ebuild.
>>>
>>>I thought all the previous steps went OK. Even some of the
>>>workarounds seem to no longer be needed. Any ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>________________________________
>>>
>>>From: Joshua ChaitinPollak [mailto:jpollak@...]
>>>Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:16 AM
>>>To: gentoo-embedded@g.o
>>>Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To?
>>>
>>>
>>>This is what I use:
>>>
>>>http://www.bulah.com/embeddedgentoo.html
>>>
>>>My installation is 6 mb, since I'm installing into 32 mb, I haven't
>>>tried too hard to pair it down. I'm installing on Soekris net4526
>>>boards. Keep in mind there are somethings you can do after you build
>
>
>>>you filesystem with Gentoo to make the install even smaller:
>>>
>>>Remove /usr/include
>>>Remove all .keep files
>>>Audit the rest of the file system for unnecessary files, expecially
>>>/etc and /var
>>>
>>>I have a series of scripts I've written to automate the process
>>>described in the above howto, and I would like to publish them
>>>shortly, but please don't hold your breath. :)
>>>
>>>-Josh
>>>
>>>On Jan 20, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Dennis Taylor wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I have tried various ways of building a root fs with uClibc, but
>>
>>to
>>
>>>no avail. I have monitored this list long enough to know that
>>>someone
>>
>>>out there has done it. I need to do it for and X86 target that must
>
>
>>>fit in about 1.5 MB of flash that gets copied to RAM and started.
>>>
>>>
>>> The "out of the box" configuration I linked to from the uClibc
>>
>>site
>>
>>>fails in various ways. I like the Gentoo way of doing things, but
>>>the
>>
>>>HOWTO link I saved a while back does not work.
>>>
>>> Any pointers to documents that would help me succeed would be
>>
>>greatly
>>
>>>appreciated.
>>>
>>> Dennis Taylor
>>
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