[ltp] Building kernel for 750P

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On Wednesday 23 March 2005 06:46, Chris Schumann wrote:
> > From: Meidinger Chris <chris.meidinger@badenit.de>
> > Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:12:24 +0100
> >
> > > Should I try enabling PCI? (And have the kernel build take 20 hours)
> > >
> > > Should I hack more source? (And still maybe not have a
> > > booting machine)
> >
> > You should compile the kernel an another machine.
> > (Seriously!) There's no
> > reason you can't use your config on a machine that can
> > compile more than one
> > kernel a day and then copy the bzImage to your 750.
> >
> > If you somehow absolutely don't have another machine, then
> > forget gentoo on
> > that brick and try a binary distribution. Otherwise you will
> > never be happy
> > (ever again).
>
> I don't have a problem with waiting, as I have lots of other things
> to do. I don't have another machine on which to run gentoo. They run
> Fedora... a binary distribution I am quite happy with.
>
> However, this beastie is so old, I hoped a custom config from the
> ground up would make it work well enough to use as a print server.
>
> So building on another machine, with different versions of gcc and
> libraries is probably not a good idea. Distcc won't work in any case.
>
> So I would REALLY appreciate tips on setting menuconfig options to
> get a working kernel out of the 2.6.10-r6 (gentoo-dev-sources) code.
> Since I have everything done up to the kernel, this last step would
> be really nice to complete.
>
> I would also appreciate leads on a useful binary distribution that
> can be installed from a floppy and network card. I tried Slackware
> and Debian, but I'm not familiar with them and they didn't work too
> well either.
>
> Many thanks,
> Chris

This reminds me, there is a knoppix distcc distro, with different versions of 
gcc available, out there. You could look at that. Also can't you build 
everything on the faster computer then move it over to the laptop?