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  • Subject: Re: [BL] O, and bye the way, Hello.
  • Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 19:10:21 +1200

Sean Parker wrote:
>
> I myself have a Toshiba laptop (486DX100, 12mb mem,
> 350mb HD) that I would like to be able to run a decent
> version of linux on.

I use a Toshiba 486dx40 with 12mb RAM for testing.
So your machine should be quite happy.

> BL3 is beginning to look pretty good.

I wish I could have got Netscape 3.04 to work with Xvesa.
It would be ideal for your Toshiba. It is quite useable
on my Toshiba (running BL1). In fact, when I moved recently,
I did all my email and browsing on it for a couple of weeks.

> I spent about the last month trying to compile a
> uClibc version of linux. I learned alot. Especially
> how that was going to probably take alot more time and
> effort than I have to give right now.

It's alot easier if you use the pre-compiled toolchain
package from uClibc (which I used to compile busybox and
Xvesa). But it needs a 2.4 kernel (or better). Getting
it to work with a 2.2 kernel would necessitate a recompile
of everything (and that would indeed take a lot of time
and effort, and there is no guarantee it would actually
work).

> try to start compiling programs of intrest to see how
> it goes.

At first you'll keep running into missing bits & pieces
(depending on what the sourcecode is calling). For example:
libstdc++, ncurses, libz, libjpeg. Just add them as required.
Eventually (as you add more and more bits) you'll stop getting
"missing bits" problems.

Cheers,
Steven





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