From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ENSOB-0002Id-W4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:50:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j969f5iV021422; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 09:41:05 GMT Received: from hotmail.com (bay109-f24.bay109.hotmail.com [64.4.19.34]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j969f47d006024 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 09:41:05 GMT Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 02:49:29 -0700 Message-ID: Received: from 64.4.19.200 by by109fd.bay109.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:49:28 GMT X-Originating-IP: [213.118.105.27] X-Originating-Email: [kammicazze@hotmail.com] X-Sender: kammicazze@hotmail.com In-Reply-To: From: "Pierre Cassimans" To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-embedded] Embedded Howto comments Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:49:28 +0000 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Oct 2005 09:49:29.0087 (UTC) FILETIME=[3E9760F0:01C5CA5B] X-Archives-Salt: 7889ece4-a68f-49c8-af6c-f9e81acdf078 X-Archives-Hash: 14f0f61033ed1467b0dd2bdf96a00663 >From: Joshua ChaitinPollak >Reply-To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org >To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: [gentoo-embedded] Embedded Howto comments >Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 19:22:02 -0400 > >I just wanted to comment that when you follow the 0.8 (or Gentoo-ized >howto), it directs you to use an older profile. > >When you try and emerge, portage warns that the profile is deprecated. If >you use the new profile: > >uclibc/x86/2005.1/2.4 > >Building the system works very well and everything went smoothly. When >using this profile, I had no trouble with the following: > >1) No workarounds for bootstrapping or emerging the system >2) The kernel compiles without trouble (no intl.h issue) this issue is typical for all kernel > 2.6.12, so it's normal you don't get problems with a 2.4 kernel > >This profile seems to have the 2.6.x kernels masked though, so I'm using >2.4.30, which is what you get when you emerge vanilla-sources. > >Anyway, that's been working very smoothly for me. > >I'm having to do a PXE/DHCP/TFTP/NFS boot to bootstrap my embedded device. >If I wrote up a bit on how to go about doing this, would someone integrate >this into the Gentoo Embedded Howto? > >-Josh > >-- >Joshua ChaitinPollak >Software Engineer >Kiva Systems > > >-- >gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list