On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 8:12 PM Paul Boddie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > Nice to see the progress being made in the recent update: > > https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/what-do-1-000-eoma68-a20-pcbs-look-like > > It's a shame that you have to redo your Parabola bootstrapping. I experimented > with bootstrapping Parabola on MIPS a few months ago using two different > approaches - (1) try and cross-compile packages, (2) try and native build in > another environment - and it was rather frustrating either way. Ultimately, I > didn't regard it as a great way to spend my time. :) it was quite hilarious to get up and running. https://wiki.parabola.nu/MIPS_Installation - oh. discontinued. that's not going to help *sigh*. basically it's a hell of a lot easier if you have a native x86 parabola install, as you can then use the equivalent of debian foriegn arch debootstrap, and the --second-stage you run a qemu emulator to finish off the install. that's basically exactly what i did... except because i didn't have native x86 parabola i ran in qemu. it worked really well and makes for a hilarious story. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
