Linux From Scratch – Progress
Gonna leave gcc building overnight… The post Linux From Scratch – Progress appeared first on Mike Little's Journalized.
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Woo Hoo! I’ve finally finished chapter 6! So far the only deviations from the book are as follows: 1) I chose not to install reiserfsprogs 2) I enabled MD5 password encoding (from the shadow suite...
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Boo Hoo! The kernel didn’t compile! 🙁 The post Linux From Scratch appeared first on Mike Little's Journalized.
View ArticleLinux From Scratch – Problem
Oh dear, I still have this error trying to build the kernel. tridentfb.c:254: #error "Floating point maths. This needs fixing before the driver is safe." It’s a bit of a pain as I don’t have a trident...
View ArticleLinux From Scratch – Problem Solved
Aha! problem solved. A quick google search on the error message led me to this patch. Kernel compilation proceeds… The post Linux From Scratch – Problem Solved appeared first on Mike Little's...
View ArticleLinux From Scratch – Kernel Problems (again)
More kernel compile problems. This time I get the error cp: reading 'tlan.o': Input/output error But this time I can’t find any references on google. 🙁 The file exists in the ./drivers/net/ directory,...
View ArticleLinux From Scratch – Kernel Compiled
Woo Hoo! The kernel finally compiled! The last couple of times it failed, there weren’t any valid reasons. I’m now worrying that the hard disk is failing somehow. Anyway. I shan’t be doing any more...
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Hmmm… I got a couple of new (to me at least) Linux distros today on the cover of a magazine; Morphix 0.3.5 and EnGarde Secure Linux Community Edition 2.0. I really need to get back to using Linux a...
View ArticleWimbledon serves Linux volley
It’s always nice to hear of another success for Linux; Wimbledon serves Linux volley (from BBC News) Following a pilot project in 2003, the internal computer network at the All-England Club has been...
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