[Clfs-support] Looking Ahead

[John]

Thanks,
A little more information.

At the moment it is not an embeded.
It is only an old laptop from around 95.
The original hard disk expired so I use a flash.
It does not have usb or CD.
I would like to use it for microcontroller in line programming.
I need the lagacy serial and parallel ports.
I do not intend to use GUI.
Command line only.
When I say it works on Linux I mean an old version.
After what is in the clfs book what I have to do is build,
 would you believe, yet another cross-compiler for the microcontroller.
This is my first clfs just to get the hang of it.
For my next project I would like to tackle embeded on an arm.

As a last thought I am wondering if I really need everything in the book.
Can I install the little I need by using the compiler in  /tools.

Dont quite see the point in cross-compiling unless you are building for a
machine other than the one you are sat in front of.

John





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Broadfoot" <amdsux at telus.net>
To: "John" <john at hf-teknik.nu>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Clfs-support] Looking Ahead


> I will answer what I can from your e-mail. Some of them I know the
> answer to, but other I do not....
>
>
> John wrote:
> > This is my first clfs build.
> > I have come to the end of  V.9.
> > Everything has gone by the book so far.
> > Reading ahead there are a few things I would like to ask.
> >
> >
> > 1. How big is clfs by the book?
> >     In the V10 Stripping I read that one can reduce the size by 200MB.
> >     I was not expecting it to be much bigger than 200MB.
> I am not sure about the space. I am building on Big drives to start
with...
> >
> >
> > 2. I chose chroot. At what point in the book do I copy from host to
> > target?
> >     My target machine is minimal so I would prefer to stay on host as
> > long as posible.
> Actually, U can build the entire system on the host in the chroot. This
> includes pretty well any package from CBLFS as well, though Xorg setup
> need to be on the target system.
> >
> >
> > 3. I am planning to copy by putting the hard disk from target into host.
> >     What problems am I letting myself in for?
> Well, the instructions in the book are meant to build on the targets
> hard drive, though its not required. The only thing that U need to be
> very careful is when U setup grub. U need to make sure that U are
> setting it up on the target's drive and not the hosts.
> >
> >
> > 4. My target machine has 1GB hard disk and 4MB ram.
> >     The hard disk is in fact a flash memory.
> >      Any problems here?
> >     I am currently using Linux on this machine so it does work.
> Here is where it can get tricky I think. What would this target system
> be? We do have CLFS Embedded that is gearded more towards systems that I
> am assuming that U are going to try to put linux on......  More
> information is kinda needed here, I think, for a through answer.....
>
>
>
>
> Dave
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > John
> >
> > John Walton
> >
> >
> >
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