On Tue, July 15, 2008 8:38 am, George Prowse wrote:
>
> On 14 Jul 2008, at 22:08, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>
>> Is there a guide anywhere to how I can install gentoo on my Dreamcast?
>>
>> I have got a stage 3 tarball and installed the latest portage
>> snapshot,
>> but it seems like madness to me to try to compile packages natively
>> and
>> I have read fragmentary emails suggesting that I can get some sort of
>> x-compile system up and running.
>>
>> But I cannot find anything coherent that explains how to do it? Any
>> clues/experience?
>>
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>
> I remember something about the dreamcast from 4 years ago. Have a look
> at this:
>
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/superh/dreamcast/
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/superh/dreamcast/BOOTING-HOWTO
> http://linuxdc.sourceforge.net/
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I have no problem booting the Dreamcast. i've been hosting my test rig for
kernel development on a debian based distro, but it is not maintained and
I believe the gentoo one is - which is why i wanted to shift to it.

Further reading suggests that the way to do this is to set up a x-dev
environment on one gentoo machine which hosts the NFS mount of the
dreamcast stuff.

I suppose I could do that, but my current development machine is Ubuntu
based and I was wondering if there was a way round that.

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