Re: [ARMedslack] Quick question

2013-03-31 Thread Stuart Winter
Just a quick one, is there a top level script / slackbuild esq script that starts a build of a complete Slackware distro ?.. The build order of Slackware is not deterministic - the distribution evolves upon itself. There is no sort of 'make world' type script. Eric's documenting his build

Re: [ARMedslack] Quick question

2013-03-31 Thread Stuart Winter
Incidentally Eric mentions the Chromebook as one of the reasons to port the hf. I did install a full rootfs of Armedslack (sf) on the Chromebook and it did work. I then gave up because of lack of feedback and because my unit was faulty. Yep I'm writing this using WindowMaker with Slackware

Re: [ARMedslack] Quick question

2013-03-31 Thread Ottavio Caruso
I wish I hadn't thrown away my work in progress tutorial about slackware on chrome book as it contained some good tips about audio hacking. On Mar 31, 2013 10:12 PM, Ottavio Caruso ottavio2006-usenet2...@yahoo.com wrote: Are you using the default chrome os kernel or is it a native one? On Mar

Re: [ARMedslack] Quick question

2013-03-31 Thread Stuart Winter
Are you using the default chrome os kernel or is it a native one? The default one at the moment but if I make the work public, I'll have built my own 3.4.0 from the ChromeOS Git repo. I do keep my notes in the 'slackwarearm-devtools/chromebook' dir on the FTP site though. It's a bit random at

Re: [ARMedslack] Quick question

2013-03-31 Thread Ottavio Caruso
The default method now is to untar a rootfs, there's no point using an installer. That is a remainder of the pc world. I did try it though and may recall it didn't work. ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org

Re: [ARMedslack] Quick question

2013-03-31 Thread Stuart Winter
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013, Ottavio Caruso wrote: The default method now is to untar a rootfs, there's no point using an installer. That is a remainder of the pc world. I did try it though and may recall it didn't work. For me, the reasons to use the installer are: 1 - Someone has to provide

Re: [ARMedslack] Quick question

2013-03-31 Thread stanley garvey
On Mar 31, 2013 23:03 Ottavio Caruso ottavio2006-usenet2...@yahoo.com wrote: On the other hand if you release a new rootfs say every month, all that a smart user has to do is umount /home and untar the new rootfs over the old one and some post install cleanup. Alternatively they can be