[mkroot] To the people who keeping pinging me off list...

[Philip Rhoades]

David,


On 2018-03-13 06:43, David Seikel wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:11:52 -0500 Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> 
>> FYI, I disabled all the subscriptions to the old aboriginal linux
>> mailing list when I moved 'em over (and made new subscriptions
>> require approval), so if you send a message there it goes into
>> moderation.
> 
> My current "mkroot" email folder is still called "FWL".  I've been
> around here for a while.  lol
> 
>> > Subject: Re: [mkroot] To the people who keeping pinging me off
>> > list... From: David Seikel <onefang at gmail.com>
>> > Date: 03/08/2018 02:16 PM
>> > To: aboriginal at lists.landley.net
>> >
>> > On Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:03:18 -0500 Alain Toussaint
>> > <alain at vocatus.pub> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>> getting the "and now we build linux from scratch and beyond linux
>> >>> from scratch natively under the result" infrastructure back in
>> >>> place
>> >>
>> >> I'd be the one in favor of that. I have been accepted as editor of
>> >> BLFS and even though I'm knee deep into build replicability
>> >> territory (build LFS --> boot LFS --> build second LFS under first
>> >> LFS --> see if it barf) so that I haven't been able to contribute
>> >> to the 8.2 release, we do have request for 686 build and I do know
>> >> that mkroot even support 486 and build a kernel for it (I myself
>> >> would be curious to find a 486 able to boot LFS 8,2).
>> >
>> > I might be able to help with that.  If I recall correctly, I was
>> > responsible for adding the original Aboriginal Linux support, and I
>> > still have the 486 device I needed that for.  Building LFS and BLFS
>> > is on my TODO, and is near the top of that TODO.
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure 486 support works properly in mkroot? But you're
>> right, I do not have actual 486 hardware to test it on, just qemu...
> 
> I started building LFS 8.1 on Sunday, and later today (Tuesday my time)
> I'll continue.  I'm starting with the "build it manually yourself"
> method suggested in the automated LFS page, and scripting it myself as
> I go along.  I'm up to the beginning of chapter 6, I'll likely start on
> bits of BLFS after finishing that.  Chapter 6 should go quickly, half
> of it is building the stuff already built with some minor variations.
> 
> Today I downloaded the 8.2 stuff, I'll switch over to that next, I was
> trying 8.1 first coz I had downloaded it's source some time ago.
> Bandwidth in Australia is expensive, I have to carefully ration out
> things like downloading 7 GB of LFS + BLFS source code, and 8.2 was
> only recently released.
> 
> Then I'll move to using Aboriginal Linux for the job, which I have
> experience with, or skip straight to mkroot which I haven't tried yet.
> 
> Currently building it on my x86_64 test box natively, I will at some
> point tell it to build for 486.  Then I can test things on my real 486
> hardware, which my old Aboriginal Linux build still works fine on.
> Earlier this year the 486 device was being audited by the government
> test labs, as it's the sort of device that requires that sort of thing.
> 
> I did have the idea while working on this, that the various test suites
> that LFS builds for all the software that toybox replaces, might be a
> good idea to see if we can get them to test toybox.  Dunno if you have
> tried that yet.


Where are you in Australia?  If you were nearby I could probably help 
with downloading - I also have a working 486 (JPG attached) for which I 
want to make an image of its old SCSI drive to see if I can virtualise 
it.  If it were possible, this is also the machine I would like to make 
some mkroot boot / root floppies for - although that seems too hard . .

I have been trying to find the time for ages to do the LFS thing on my 
newer / faster workstations.

I was in Sydney (still go back there occasionally) but now I am in a 
little country town (see below).

Regards,

Phil.
-- 
Philip Rhoades

PO Box 896
Cowra  NSW  2794
Australia
E-mail:  phil at pricom.com.au
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