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 4.43) id 1EGHCp-0008Ue-S0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:28:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j8GENJB5012065; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:23:19 GMT Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu (lennier.cc.vt.edu [198.82.162.213]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8GENI5Q017007 for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:23:19 GMT Received: from steiner.cc.vt.edu (IDENT:mirapoint@evil-steiner.cc.vt.edu [10.1.1.14]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j8GESPEJ003619 for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:28:25 -0400 Received: from [128.173.184.73] (gs4073.geos.vt.edu [128.173.184.73]) by steiner.cc.vt.edu (MOS 3.6.4-CR) with ESMTP id DYB06263; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:28:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <432AD684.3090908@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:28:20 -0400 From: "Stephen P. Becker" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050807) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] bootstrap.sh on asus wl500g References: <20050916133443.GA1024@ices.utexas.edu> <432ACD32.5030209@gentoo.org> <20050916140115.GE1024@ices.utexas.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050916140115.GE1024@ices.utexas.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 58ad3b3f-092c-474a-bb3b-bda3d5925e7f X-Archives-Hash: 1514f2667628b89374ad96afec5b65fd Jason Pepas wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:48:34AM -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > >>>I put openwrt >>>on it and chrooted into a >>>experimental/mips/embedded/stages/stage1-mipsel-uclibc-2005.0.tar.bz2 >>>tarball, with the idea of changing the profile and rebuiling. >> >>Ok, stop right here. Do you realize how little memory this device has? >> You would be lucky to even be able to build some of the more simple >>programs without some sort of ICE or out of memory error. > > > I have 256MB of swap enabled - it shouldn't be a problem. Yes, it's a big problem. >>That is not even close to the correct profile for uclibc. You really >>want /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/mips > > > Well, I want to switch to glibc, but I couldn't get any mips3 or mips4 > stages running (I think they are the wrong endian-ness). So I thought > the correct thing to was grab a stage1 and change the profile. Of course they are the wrong endianness. Not only that, but they contain instructions that will only run on 64-bit cpus. > Am I going about this the wrong way? I am fairly new to gentoo. Not just the wrong way, but the impossible way. > Hmm, that sounds more like what I want to do. What I really want is a > stage1-mips1-2005.1.tar.bz2, but that doesn't exist. Can I use crossdev > to accomplish that? No. -Steve -- gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list