Re: [Gumstix-users] Anger Management

[Henk M. <he...@co...>]

My solution, get an old PC, stick any reasonable lunx distribution on it
(I've only used fedora, but there are many others that work fine), and it
will work.

New laptops and linux do not always go together and may cause serious
frustration...

H

On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Erik D. Rodriguez wrote:

> Ok. I am formally giving up on trying getting the buildroot environment
> working on my XP Pro laptop. The towel has been thrown. My next
> solution: Build a Linux machine and create the toolchain there. Since I
> am intimately familiar with the instructions on Buildroot on XP, the
> first thing that comes to mind is that Debian was used. I don't assume
> that Debian is a required OS to build the Toolchain. The instructions
> for doing this don't specify an OS. Just Linux. So, since I found Debian
> to be horrifically frustrating (I am used to Redhat) I am going to do
> this in Redhat 9.
>
>
>
> So, has anyone been able to get this working in Redhat?
>
> Will Redhat work for compiling programs (And Kernel) for the Gumstix?
>
> Is there anything I should know before I do this?
>
>
>
> Erik Rodriguez
>
> Senior Software Quality Engineer
>
>
>
>

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