I can test it on a few different Toshiba Laptops. Regards, Robert Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen.
-----Original Message----- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2004 12:30 p.m. To: CLUG Subject: Gentoo installfest distcc-bootcd. Some may recall that last year I prepared a boot-cd that had gcc and distcc on board so that people could boot their power boxes and chuck them into the server farm for helping compile gentoo. To use distcc successfully the servers need to run the same version of gcc, distcc, and the rest of the compiling toolchain (binutils mainly) as the target machine. That makes using differnet distro'd machines a little tricky. A boot cd acts like knoppix, doesn't touch your hard drive, and boots with consistent versions of the required tools. It means we can beg steal and borrow various grunty machines, boot them from cd and attach them to the network, In real life they can be windows machines, linux boxes running a different version of the toolchains, etc. I am developing an up to date version now and it is almost complete. It uses the gentoo livecd autoconfig system to detect hardware (which is in turn borrowed from knoppix, and that seems pretty good at detecting hardware. Of course there is no X for this, so all it basically has to detect is a network card. I have built several iterations of the iso and booted them via vmware. Next step will be to strip all the extraneous stuff out (its currently 1G so its not gonna fit on a cd at the moment). I will need some testers. Let me know if you are able to give it a try. BTW the current versions of these tools on gentoo are: gcc version 3.3.2 20031218 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.2-r5, propolice-3.3-7) binutils 2.14.90.0.7 distcc 2.12.1 -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
