As a postscript to my previous post, let me add that I have ethernet transceiver dongles for probably most of the Quadras, which all have built-in ethernet. The IIci's would need NuBus network cards.
JCE Joel Ewy wrote: > I don't know whether it would make a significant difference in build > time for m68k packages or not, and I don't know much about the buildd > process, but I have 2 Quadra 840AVs, a 660AV, and a pile (I think 4 or > more) of Q700s lying around doing not much of anything at the moment. > I've had older versions of Debian running on the 840s but they need to > be reinstalled. One of them has 128M RAM, and the other could easily be > upgraded. I was using one for lightweight desktop and graphics apps for > a while, but there were irritating keyboard issues in X. > > I gather that the 840s would be within the realm of the kinds of > machines that are currently being used for builds, and the 660 might be > in the ballpark too. The Q700s have 25Mhz '040s, miniscule hard drives > (if any), and only 20M RAM in 30-pin SIMMs, so I imagine they would be > forced to do a lot of swapping building anything but small packages. > OTOH, they've got nothing better to do. I have some 4G SCSI drives > lying around, but they have 68-pin connectors. Adaptors are about > $10-$15US I think. I'm not in a position right now to spend much money > on hobbies, but would love to see all this equipment put to better use. > I also have a number of Mac II ci's w/ cache cards. These are > '030-25MHz. They have 8 30-pin SIMM sockets, instead of the 4 in the > Q700s. The CPU is obviously not as fast, but it looks like they could > probably accept 32M of RAM if I could find enough 4M SIMMs, and RAM > might trump the difference between clock-parity '030 and '040 when it > comes to building Debian packages. > > Another issue is that I'm behind NAT, though there's some possibility I > could be moving to static IPs in the near future. Don't know exactly > how this would effect hosting buildds. I think I could forward ports, > but that would probably only work for a single machine. Of course I > don't know how the machines would need to be accessed... > > I would be reluctant to give up my 840s and 660, but I would be willing > to ship all but one Q700 to somebody else who could more ably administer > their use as buildds, if they would be of any use. Same for the II ci > systems. > > Also, though I realize that Aranym builds are still experimental, how > hard would it be to do [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I mean build Debian m68k packages > as > a spare-time activity for underworked x86 CPUs the world over? ie, make > a pre-packaged, dedicated buildd binary image that could turn your PC > into a temporary m68k build workhorse. Doesn't appear that adding and > removing buildds is exactly a seamless, on-the-fly kind of proposition. > What if it could be? > > JCE > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
