Gentoo Archives: gentoo-mips

From: "Stephen P. Becker" <spbecker@××.edu>
To: gentoo-mips@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] Help!?! where have all the IP30 netboot images gone?!?!
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:00:52
Message-Id: 432AD000.4050206@vt.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-mips] Help!?! where have all the IP30 netboot images gone?!?! by John
1 John wrote:
2 > aah ok,
3 > thanks very much Steve i will get into the irc and ask Kumba :)
4 >
5 > even a netboot with broken networking would be ok for me :)
6 > i just want to get all the stuff set up on my main pc - dhcp, tftp,
7 > etc etc to get the Octane booting up over the network.
8 >
9 > if it boots up into a broken OS with no further networking thats
10 > ok in the short term :)
11 >
12 > As im sure Kumbas fixed images will be coming soon, or i will
13 > try cross-compiling the vanilla sources from linux for mips with
14 > the speedracer IP30 patches.
15
16 Don't bother with vanilla-sources and patching. There is a lot more to
17 it than just the speedracer patches. Just ebuild unpack
18 mips-sources-<foo>.ebuild, copy that to a suitable location, and do your
19 cross-compile.
20
21 -Steve
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