Re: [linuxdc-dev] New to this list, many questions

[M. R. B. <mr...@0x...>]

* Adrian McMenamin <ad...@mc...> on Fri, Sep 06, 2002:

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> People are using different ones. Perhaps more debian than anything else. =
But=20
> I'm an RH user.
>=20

Homegrown?  There's only the debian distro that I know of, and Gentoo which
is in the works but hasn't been released yet.  Everything else is built
from scratch (not to be confused with linuxfromscratch.org).

> >
> > What is a userland? :). Is it a DC thing or a Linux kernel thing because
> > I've been using Linux for many years and never heard that term. Then
> > again, I've NEVER done any Linux kernel work before.
> >
> Userland simply means the GNU bit of GNU/Linux - ie everything else!
>=20

Hah!  My busybox+uclibc image contains *zero* GNU.  Keep your GNUs to
yourself.

>=20
> The VMU is not a substitute for a hard drive. Too slow for a start. If yo=
u=20
> compile in the driver (and the kernel's simple mtd char driver) you get a=
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> /dev/mtd/0 device and you can read and write to it, but each read takes a=
bout=20
> 1/60 second and each write 1/15 second. Though, I suppose your approach c=
ould=20
> work in theory, but probably better to use NFS to slove that problem.
>=20

Yeah, everyone currently uses NFS for persistent storage.

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> > I don't have a BBA yet (hopefully tomorrow) so that's why I'm stuck on
> > this idea of an iso - I have no way to connect to anything outside the
> > box at the moment.
> >

Starman: There's always serial.  My first kernels were sent over a 56700
bps link, go checkout dcload-serial and the sh-ipl+g package on
ftp.m17n.org.  There are a few places (lik-sang) that carry a DC serial->PC
adapter, it's about $25 USD.

M. R.