Re: LFS on Sun Ultra5

2005-03-07 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Steve Crosby wrote: okay - so from Linux it is ;) Instaling Aurora Linux now because it was handy, any other recommendations for a host distro? Just so happens that I'm working on a sparc install as well :) It's an UltraSparcIIi in a Sun Netra T1 105. So far Gentoo has been working well for me

Re: LFS on Sun Ultra5

2005-03-07 Thread Steve Crosby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:OFE9389F4D.EB5D7A58- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Steve Crosby wrote: > >>For the LFS build - is there a recommendation about building LFS from >>Linux >>or Solaris? > > MUCH easier from linux ;-) > > There is this little matter of no ext2 write support under solaris...

Re: LFS on Sun Ultra5

2005-03-06 Thread Ryan . Oliver
Steve Crosby wrote: >For the LFS build - is there a recommendation about building LFS from >Linux >or Solaris? MUCH easier from linux ;-) There is this little matter of no ext2 write support under solaris... (genext2fs may help out here... I haven't got that far yet) >Just looking for some

LFS on Sun Ultra5

2005-03-05 Thread Steve Crosby
I have a Sun Ultra 5 fresh out of it's packaging, with 256MB RAM, 400Mhz UltraSparcIIi CPU and 9GB IDE HDD. I'd like to install LFS on it, in addition to Solaris and a Linux Distro. For the LFS build - is there a recommendation about building LFS from Linux or Solaris? The machine will end up