Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Compiling Linux

[paul s <mac...@qu...>]

can you boot the apple tv with a linux kernel? anyone know if it is 
possible to run LinuxMCE on it?

cheers
paul


On 08/28/2008 12:49 PM, Sven Anders wrote:
> Jelle De Loecker schrieb:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm currently compiling the linux kernel on my AppleTV (I'm following
>> the Gentoo tutorial on MythTV's wiki) and I was just wondering how long
>> it would take.
>>
>> I've read about long compiles, about 14 hours, on regular machines. I
>> know there's only 1 ghz in this machine but since it's a silent compile
>> and the only feedback I'm getting is from ps -x I got too curious.
> 
> Where did you read 'up to 14 hours'?
> 
>> It's been at it for 20 hours now. The script is still displaying
>> "building dependencies".
>> There seems to be a lot of activity according to ps -x, yet the disk
>> space usage stays the same.
>>
>> So I got a bit worried. And yes, it's my first kernel-compile :)
> 
> The compile time depends on the processor and the selected features,
> but on an 1GHz processor it should take longer than 2 hours
> 
> Some more info about build the linux kernel here:
> 
> http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/Kernel-Build-HOWTO.html
> 
> Regards
>  Sven
> 
> 
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