Re: [Astlinux-devel] A quick and easy build environment

[David K. <da...@ke...>]

I notice an error in my description below... a 10GB disk is not large
enough for an AstLinux build environment.... best to launch with at least
20GB.  Sorry about that.

David.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 6:32 PM Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lo...>
wrote:

>
> > On Mar 16, 2020, at 3:54 PM, David Kerr <da...@ke...> wrote:
> >
> > Devs,
> >   I just discovered multipass... https://multipass.run and decided to
> give it a try.  It supports Mac, Windows (Pro, not Home) or Linux... for me
> I installed it on Mac.  Once installed a one-line command gets you a
> running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS environment...
> >
> > multipass launch --name astbuild --cpus 2 --mem 1G --disk 10G
> >
> > The first time you do that it takes a little time as it has to download
> the Ubuntu image.  But once started you can
> >
> > multipass shell astbuild
> >
> > and then follow the instructions at
> https://doc.astlinux-project.org/devdoc:documentation.
> >
> > You can speed things up by creating a cloud-init file to install all our
> required packages up-front, so for example on the above launch command
> add...
> >
> >  --cloud-init astlinux-cloud-config.yaml
> >
> > where the contents of the yaml file is...
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dkerr64/astlinux/develop/astlinux-cloud-config.yaml
> so the first time you connect to the shell everything is ready for you to
> git checkout the source, build and install Crosstool-NG and then build
> AstLinux.
> >
> > To get the built AstLinux image out of the VM you would want to
> >
> > multipass mount <host-path> astbuild:<image-path>
> >
> > so you can copy files in/out of the Ubuntu VM.
> >
> > Enjoy,
> > David.
>
> Thanks David,  I never heard of this until now.
>
> Lonnie
>
>
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