[linuxdc-dev]NFS & other Qs

[Ernie <st...@ma...>]

Hello all,
Once Sega dropped the price of the DC to $50, i jumped on it.  I figure 
it can't get much lower than this, and $50 isn't much ... of  course, 
now i have the Dreamcast, a DC keyboard, the BBA, a serial cable, a 
mouse adapter, and Shenmue :).  Still, total, it was probably still 
cheaper than the PS2.

So, I managed to get an SH4 cross compiler installed on my mandrake 8.1 
box (even though I think bill mentions he used red hat 7.1 in his 
article, i had a lot of problems with my red hat 7.1 server).  I managed 
to boot the dc using a kernel i got from a link on this list, and even 
managed to compile a few utilities ...  but first a few questions ....

I managed to configure the net-tools package, and they even execute 
correctly on the dc!  Except, there is no /proc file system, nor can i 
seem to mount one ... does /proc work on the dc yet?  Is the busybox 
util not able to mount it?

Has anyone gotten bash to run?  I compiled it, but i get a 'unaligned' 
error...

Another mount question ... can the busybox 'mount' binary mount nfs 
shares?  i have an nfs server i can easily throw some sh4 binaries on, 
which would probably be a lot faster than uploading via the serial cable 
(which is probably still easier than burning a CD every couple of 
minutes).  Is this possible, or do i have to use nfsroot?  I'm thinking 
it'd be great if i could just copy binaries to the nfs share,and mount 
it as /usr/local on the dc ...

Is there some way to redirect the console back through the serial cable, 
even though i'm using the serial cable for uploading the kernel?  I only 
have one monitor, and 3 computers, so its a big jumble of wires behind 
my desk ... and i noticed some 'console' options in the dc-load tool ...

What are ya'll using your DC's for?  I guess if I could get X working, 
that'd be cool.  And maybe a dynamic linker?  I've read a few posts 
indicating X is kinda slow, but i suppose things can only get better as 
more people discover more about the DC hardware ... I mean, all the 
games run pretty quickly :).

Thanks in advance, and any tips or tricks anyone would like to share, 
i'd appreciate ...

-ernie