WOW!!
This would really be a nice Wiki page or two.
I have never seen such a concise set of instructions posted anywhere.
I will wait a little to see what flak this creates, but I may well try it.
I prefer the CentOS flavor, but assume that there would be little if any
trouble using that instead of Fedora X
Question: Is kernel 2.4x acceptable or 2.5 required?
I already have spare hard drive(s) available that could be up and
running in no time.
Thanks for all of this.
John Novack
Chris Abnett wrote:
I originally felt similarly to you as I thought it would be a real pain to
build from sources and install.. however I found it very easy to build up a
development linux box and build from sources... thus also allowing me to select
the features I want in my system. Building a default system being what I did
first back in January and then playing around a little from there.. but really
to get myself up and running I did the following simple steps:
1] built up a fedora core 6 machine(i386 variant, astlinux devel crashes on
x64), de-selecting all x-windows, no gnome, no KDE, and installing all
development environments, legacy development, no web server, I did install FTP,
SSHD, but no databases etc..
2] added a regular user using useradd and set him a password.
3] su user - this switches you over to your new non-root account
4] cd /usr/src
5] svn co https://astlinux.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/astlinux/trunk
astlinux-trunk
The devel environment will be downloaded into a directory
/usr/src/astlinux-trunk
6] cd astlinux-trunk
7] cp astlinux.config .config
That copies the default config file
Now lets build our devel environment with all the defaults just to make sure
this thing will work...
8] make
This begins the lengthy build process.. I have had this go real smooth
except for on occasion the sha1sum files don't get downloaded correctly as the
build occurs... so if I see a compiler error 1 where it could not verify a
package don't panic.. you get dropped back to your command line and you can
simply create an sha1 file for that package by doing this:
A} cd dl
B} sha1sum yourpackagehere-xx.xx.tar.gz > yourpackagehere-xx.xx.tar.gz.sha1
The main thing with that command is that you take whatever package failed the
make verify.. and make sure the filename you use as the output file is the same
as the input file just add a .sha1 to the end of it
C} cd ..
D} make
This resumes the building of your astlinux...
Once done you will have a directory called astlinux-trunk-xxxx this is where
your new images are located.
Not being sure which image you are running but assuming you are running on the
newer runnix structure, loading up a new version couldn't be simpler...
in my case my systems are not FULL production systems.. I am using the Neo Light (CV860a) boards for testing. And have a semi production system in my home.
To load a new image you can power down, pull the flashcard out and drop it in
your windows PC if you like...
The 'os' directory will contain your images.. look at your existing
astlinux-trunk-xxxx.run.conf file and simply change the version number in that
file if you like. This way it will boot and run exactly the same as before...
Then copy your new astlinux-trunk-xxxx.run file and its associated .sha1
file from your developer to the os dir on the flash, and finally copy the
initrd.img file over to the os dir as well... now either rename the old files
to something like astxxxxinactive and astxxxxinactivesha1 and
initrdinactive with no . and nothing after.. they will stay there but not hurt
anything.. or you can move them off entirely if you like...
Put the flash card back in your machine, boot up and you are ready to rock N
roll on your newly built system...
Then you can get into the devel environment and select packages through the
make menuconfig utility if you like to try and add or take things off.. this is
how I do it and am getting better at it....
*** I'll let the mods comment and flame me for any in-accuracies I may have put
in this little email as im a novice at the development environment... ***
-Christopher
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