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Re: [Astlinux-users] DISTRO TO USE DEV ENVIROMENT
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From: Gary G. H. <ghe...@co...> - 2007-05-02 18:18:33
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I have been told previously that most of the fellows involved with development are using CENTOS ... When qustions about various = dependencies have come up, they typically point to solutions available to CENTOS ...=20 While I am sure other distros will work fine (I have done it under = Gentoo and Debian) it seems that CENTOS will be the easiest one for you to get = a little help with if you need it ... So if you are neutral on what = distro, make your life simple and do a CENTOS box ... G.Hendershot -----Original Message----- From: ast...@li... [mailto:ast...@li...] On Behalf Of ipf...@gm... Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 1:58 PM To: 'AstLinux Users Mailing List' Subject: [Astlinux-users] DISTRO TO USE DEV ENVIROMENT =20 Hi Kristian And others! I=B4m thinking in use the development env ... To set up a gumstix that i = have used here...I know that is a bit complex with all that dependencies and etc.. Some indication in the best distro to use??... I don=B4t want to lose = the hair i have left.. :-) Regards=20 Miklos -----Mensagem original----- De: ast...@li... [mailto:ast...@li...] Em nome de = Kristian Kielhofner Enviada: segunda-feira, 30 de abril de 2007 11:36 Para: li...@wo...; AstLinux Users Mailing List Assunto: Re: [Astlinux-users] Can I use CF Card 32MB for Astlinux 0.4.5 On 4/30/07, Marcus <li...@wo...> wrote: > On Friday 27 April 2007 22:41, Nedi wrote: > > I'm planing to upgrade my astlinux 0.3.0 to 0.4.5 should I use=20 > > bigger CF Card or can i use the old CF with 32 MB my HP Thin Client=20 > > PC dont like bigger CF than 32 MB > > When I did a "df" on astlinux 0.45 there were about 61MB used and 5MB=20 > free on the CF card. I used a 128MB card, but since this is an image=20 > the rest of the space is "wasted". I had added a few small binaries=20 > for trying pppoe which is still a mystery to me, but normally you=20 > would have a little more free space I guess. > > I doubt you will get by with a 32MB card unless you remove some stuff=20 > first. The developers might be able to tell you what can go. > > Marcus > Marcus, The rest of the space is not wasted... Distributing an image makes AstLinux easier to install but that is not = the only way it can be installed... Here are a couple of strategies to = reclaim your "wasted" space: 1) Create another partition. You can edit the partition table on your flash card to create another partition to use as either a keydisk or anything else you want. 2) Partition the drive yourself using the files from the image: (on another Linux system) mkdir /mnt/image mount -t ext2 -o loop,offset=3D32256 AstLinux-image.img /mnt/image fdisk = [your flash device] (create a partition of your liking) mke2fs [your flash = device partition] mkdir /mnt/flash cp -a /mnt/image/* /mnt/flash/ umount = /mnt/image /mnt/flash (install GRUB on your flash device) Boot! 3) Resize the image using something like GParted. I haven't ever done = this with an AstLinux image, but I have used gparted with great success in = the past. 4) Build your own image and make anything you want. The other = developers and I work very hard to make the development environment available. = There has been a lot of progress (especially in trunk) on making the = development environment easier to use and more reliable (I now test it across three different systems regularly). To answer the original question... No, for 0.4.5 you will need a 64mb flash card. I am sorry about this but we really needed to get the = release out (with various Asterisk security problems, etc) and we didn't want to remove any features. I spent quite a bit of time last week working on the new bootloader = for 0.5. From what it looks like now, it should be possible to get the = current image into 32mb (with bootloader), although I can't recommend it because = it won't leave you much room for upgrading... There didn't seem to be much demand to keep AstLinux under 32mb... If there is, perhaps I can start to make a "micro" version (for lack of = a better name) that would always fit in the original 32mb. -- Kristian Kielhofner -------------------------------------------------------------------------= This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - = the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. = Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Ast...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pa...@kr.... -------------------------------------------------------------------------= This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - = the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. = Just data. 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