linux-apus-devel

rescue CD

[F. H. <hei...@am...>]

Is there a rescue CD available for APUS?  I have found a couple for
PC Linux and I was thinking it would be nice if there was one for APUS.
I understand that there is no way an Amiga can boot from CD ROM so
boot floppys might be necessary.

Also, I only have 64 MB of RAM in my Amiga so, the RAM disk would
have to be fairly small.

Actually, the term "recue" CD might be a little misleading.  What I
want is a useable small Linux setup that does not need to reside
on a harddisk.

Fred

Re: rescue CD

[F. H. <hei...@am...>]

Alan Buxey wrote:

>Hi,
>
>>Actually, the term "recue" CD might be a little misleading.  What I
>>want is a useable small Linux setup that does not need to reside
>>on a harddisk.
>>
>
>sort of boot/root floppies.  I cant recall how big the ramdisk image is when 
>gzipped up - but that'd be pretty much what you need.  I think DEBIAN's
>standard boot/root floppies'd give you the rescue access needed
>
Some of the "root" floppies are mostly ment to perform installs and 
don't have
certain files like vi and maybe mt and probably some others I can't 
think of right now.
Anyway having the root disk image on CD, would have room for more programs
and also alleviate the need for lots of RAM.

Fred

Re: rescue CD

[Ken T. <ke...@we...>]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, F. Heitkamp wrote:

> Is there a rescue CD available for APUS?  I have found a couple for
> PC Linux and I was thinking it would be nice if there was one for APUS.
> I understand that there is no way an Amiga can boot from CD ROM so
> boot floppys might be necessary.

I installed a small system to a 100 Meg ZIP drive a while ago that I
intend to use for recovery if the need arises.

Ken.

Re: rescue CD

[F. H. <hei...@am...>]

Ken Tyler wrote:

>
>On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, F. Heitkamp wrote:
>
>>Is there a rescue CD available for APUS?  I have found a couple for
>>PC Linux and I was thinking it would be nice if there was one for APUS.
>>I understand that there is no way an Amiga can boot from CD ROM so
>>boot floppys might be necessary.
>>
>
>I installed a small system to a 100 Meg ZIP drive a while ago that I
>intend to use for recovery if the need arises.
>
Actually, I do have a 100 meg zip disk with some PPC Linux on it. 
 However I need to
either compile a kernel or find a good one some where.  I tried 
compiling an APUS
kernel on my Power Mac Linux machine but when I type "make" the kernel won't
compile.  I think make complains about not being compiled on an Amiga or 
something.
Should I be able to compile APUS kernels on my PowerMac?  Is there a
HOW-TO?

Fred

Re: rescue CD

[Ken T. <ke...@we...>]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, F. Heitkamp wrote:

> Actually, I do have a 100 meg zip disk with some PPC Linux on it.
> However I need to either compile a kernel or find a good one some
> where.  I tried compiling an APUS kernel on my Power Mac Linux machine
> but when I type "make" the kernel won't compile.  I think make
> complains about not being compiled on an Amiga or something. Should I
> be able to compile APUS kernels on my PowerMac?  Is there a HOW-TO?

Hello,

No idea about compiling APUS on a Mac, I would have thought it would work
but there's alaways something ready to bite you ;)

I can compile a kernel to your config if you want and either test it or
post it to you.

Ken.

Re: rescue CD

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 01:15, F. Heitkamp wrote:

> Should I be able to compile APUS kernels on my PowerMac?

Yes, but you need to change the platform from APUS to PowerMac. ;)


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Earthling Michel D=E4nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast

Re: rescue CD

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, F. Heitkamp wrote:
>  However I need to
> either compile a kernel or find a good one some where.  I tried 
> compiling an APUS
> kernel on my Power Mac Linux machine but when I type "make" the kernel won't
> compile.  I think make complains about not being compiled on an Amiga or 
> something.
> Should I be able to compile APUS kernels on my PowerMac?  Is there a
> HOW-TO?

Yes, you should be able to compile kernels everywhere.

I compile PPC kernels on the ia32-notebook from work (fast) and on my CHRP
(slower).
I compile m68k kernels on the ia32-notebook from work (fast) and (very rare) on
my Amiga (very slow).

Ok, that's cross-compiling, but compiling for a different system with the same
arch should work, too.

Can you post the error message from make.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@li...

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds

Re: rescue CD

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 13:58, F. Heitkamp wrote:=20
> Is there a rescue CD available for APUS?  I have found a couple for
> PC Linux and I was thinking it would be nice if there was one for APUS.
> I understand that there is no way an Amiga can boot from CD ROM so
> boot floppys might be necessary.
>=20
> Also, I only have 64 MB of RAM in my Amiga so, the RAM disk would
> have to be fairly small.

What do you need a ramdisk for when you've got a CD? ;)

> Actually, the term "recue" CD might be a little misleading.  What I
> want is a useable small Linux setup that does not need to reside
> on a harddisk.

Someone (Brendan O'Dea IIRC) has made such a CD with a small Debian
system. You may want to contact him about it.


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Earthling Michel D=E4nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast