[gNewSense-users] Re: would you like to help me with Fuloong - i noticed you have them also

[samy boutayeb]

Hello Matti,

Le jeudi 20 janvier 2011 à 22:21 +0200, matti christensen a écrit :
> Hello
> 
> Hope you don't mind me posting following directly to you - i cc the list ...
> 
No, it's fine ;-)

> - ok - your boot.cfg tells me that somewhere is a vmlinux that Fuloong  
> 2F is able to boot ( believe me i've been looking...)
> 
> - of course i understand that Debian must work as Lemote delivers the  
> box with it, but it just so happens that i'm really aschetic = from my  
> point of view Debian is bloatware... anyway it seems that i have to  
> follow ideas of following url on gNewSense web page;
> 
> http://www.beijinglug.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=169&Itemid=12
> 
> - if only someone woud be nice enough to cook up a distribution with  
> only the bare minimum ( just enough to be able to compile c and c++  
> and download by ftp ) and let every geek to do the rest as she/he sees  
> best = i used to use Core-Linux ( 2.4 ) and now Crux but even them  
> have some parts that i need to remove and compile my own stuff ( i  
> know there is LFS but at least in this case it makes the job a bit too  
> time consuming as one had to do cross compiling besides of everything  
> else - i don't have that much time as i also like my family...) ( i've  
> been doing my boxes like this from early days of Linux - kernel 1.2.13  
> - so there is no way i'd store something i won't use on my drive )
> 


Of course, gns is cool, but did you consider Gentoo?

http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter/mips/loongson/
http://r0bertz.blogspot.com/
http://mirrors.xmu.edu.cn/gentoo/experimental/mips/stages/loongson/

Regards

SDamy


> Hope you don't take me wrong = i'm really interested in gNewSense (  
> and Lemote machines ) because the sense of freedom !
> 

> /mc
> 
> ( see attached 'postcard' from Finland as my best wishes )
> 
> 

Nice country!

> Quoting samy boutayeb <address@hidden>:
> 
> > Hi Matti,
> >
> > Le jeudi 20 janvier 2011 à 16:18 +0200, matti christensen a écrit :
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> i have posted following to gNewSense-users mailing list and to Lemote
> >> few times - but got no comments so far.
> >>
> >> i have tried to boot various kernels, which i have downloaded from
> >> Lemote and other sites, with PMON2000 - but the system only dumps some
> >> registers and freezes... i am able to boot rescue-fl filesystem image
> >> found from Lemote - and also able to install and run OpenBSD 4.8 and
> >> further.
> >>
> >> PMON2000 version was 1.30 when i got the Fuloong - now i have updated
> >> it to 1.3.6a ( also found on Lemote web site ) but the problem keeps
> >> unchanged.
> >>
> > Not sure if I can be of immediate help. As a matter of fact, the
> > gnewsense team focussed on the Yeeloong laptop. However, le Fuloong Mini
> > is a valid platform as well and there is no reason to disregard it.
> > Let's try to push this project forward.
> >
> > Please feel free to share your intents to install/run gns on the Fuloong
> > mini. I assume, some of the infos in
> > http://www.gnewsense.org/Projects/Lemote
> > may be outdated or inaccurate.
> >
> > As for my Fuloong host, it runs Debian at the moment.
> > The boot.cfg file has following entry:
> >
> > title debian
> > kernel (wd0,0)/boot/vmlinux
> > args root=/dev/hda1 console=tty ide0=ata66 uca=0x50000000, 0x2000000
> >
> > Feel free to share your issues/questions on list...
> > Regards
> >
> > Samy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> i really would like to get this solved - keep waiting for your lines...
> >>
> >>
> >> matti christensen  address@hidden
> >>
> >> keep-IT-simple
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> keep-IT-simple