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[Ondra Tomecka <otom7630 AT lucy.troja.mff.cuni.cz>]

Greetings,

Here is some update for those of you who are interested.

I had to use RH5.1 CD to boot, as I don't have any floppy anywhere, not to 
mention that I don't have floppy drive anyway to write an image to it (you 
see, I'm just too modern to use floppies) ;-)

Currently there is minimal working RH5.1 system installed, partially 
upgraded to RH6.2 (kernel, glibc, some programs). At first I thought that 
I can upgrade via rpm to some newer versions of necessary utilities, like 
make, gcc or util-linux (to get mount --bind ability), but rpm in RH5.1 
simply doesn't understand newer rpm format used in RH7+, and when I tried 
to upgrade rpm I only managed to completely break the system so I had to 
start over :( God bless compilation from source ;-)

Through the night the system compiled few things like make and zlib, and 
right now it is compiling gcc, so I would be able to compile newer kernel 
(RH5.1's gcc 2.7.3 looks like it cannot compile 2.6 kernel, and I didn't 
try 2.4 yet as I didn't have sources handy).

For the compilation I created 128M swapfile in addition to 64M swap 
partition, and /usr/src/ is mounted over samba share, so there is enough 
space for it ;-).

All this is just so I can set up chroot for building the system, as I 
would like to have as much of the chroot as possible on samba, but without 
devfs I need mount --bind capability to have /dev available on samba. It 
is windows share, so I cannot create special devices there :( And to get 
either defvs or mount --bind I need newer kernel, for that I need newer 
gcc, which I'm just trying to build. Doh!

Yes, it would be probably a lot faster to backup gaming machine to few 
DVDs, install SMGL on it, build SMGL for this lowspec thing in chroot, and 
then restore from backup, but I just want to make it work by itself. Call 
it a challenge ;-) Or training in computer black magic ;-))))

Andy