Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-10 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Ok I'm quite a newbe to both Linux and PC development, however I know what I want to do but don't know where to start! What I'd like to know is how do I build a distribution entirely from scratch/source like the pro's do. ie. Get all the debian source for the latest arm port (just the source)

Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-10 Thread Björn Wetterbom
Could Linux from scratch provide you with at least some of the information you need? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 19:10, Jonathan Wilson piercing_m...@hotmail.com wrote: Ok I'm quite a newbe to both Linux and PC development, however I know what I want to do but

Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-10 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Jonathan Wilson piercing_m...@hotmail.com wrote: Ok I'm quite a newbe to both Linux and PC development, however I know what I want to do but don't know where to start! What I'd like to know is how do I build a distribution entirely from scratch/source like the

Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-10 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010/3/10 Björn Wetterbom bjohv...@gmail.com: Could Linux from scratch provide you with at least some of the information you need? is that available for debian? does it rebuild _debian_ packages, entirely and recursively, recreating a debian mirror with a specific set of architecture-specific

Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-10 Thread Björn Wetterbom
It was a while ago since I did any reading on LFS, but as far as I can remember it simply gives you instructions on how to build a custom Linux OS from scratch by downloading all the sources one by one yourself. I guess that means that the answer to all of your questions is no. 2010/3/10 Luke

Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 07:20:04PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: yeah - i'd like to know how to do this, too. i installed buildd (and wannabuild) but there appears to be some manual steps involved, and i was kind-of expecting it to be automatic and recursive. what i was

Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-10 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 07:20:04PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: yeah - i'd like to know how to do this, too. i installed buildd (and wannabuild) but there appears to be some manual steps

Managed to brick my sheevaplug -- not getting any serial output

2010-03-10 Thread Shiva Bhattacharjee
Hi, I was about to install debian on my sheevaplug. Since I was going to do it from an usb stick, I had to upgrade my UBoot. I followed the instructions from http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/uboot-upgrade.html. I did a reset and verified my UBoot indeed got upgraded. However,

Re: Managed to brick my sheevaplug -- not getting any serial output

2010-03-10 Thread Lluís Batlle
You can always use openocd through the jtag, and test or reflash whatever you want. A new uboot, for example. The plugcomputer.org wiki or places like that will give you information on how to do that. 2010/3/10 Shiva Bhattacharjee shiva...@gmail.com: Hi, I was about to install debian on my

Re: Managed to brick my sheevaplug -- not getting any serial output

2010-03-10 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Lluís Batlle virik...@gmail.com [2010-03-10 22:41]: The plugcomputer.org wiki or places like that will give you information on how to do that. Exactly. Search for installer v1.0. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-10 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:08:30 + Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net wrote: (When replying, please shorten the CC list, preferably only to the debian-embedded list.) a bit like openembedded. It's much easier to not do things like OE and to actually build incrementally, putting

Re: Help needed to debug an armel build/unittest failure

2010-03-10 Thread Iustin Pop
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 12:18:49AM +, Martin Guy wrote: On 3/7/10, Iustin Pop iu...@k1024.org wrote: Second question would be if it's OK to use agricola to test this Well u can use the 600 MHz 512MB box here if that would help. You access the armel-sid chroot by saying armel-sid :)