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[lokomotiv]

Well... I was thinking is it possible to install say debian linux for arm on a usb hd somehow? I am missing alot of things in this current version...

Hmm I know they are alot bigger and might be to heavy for my poor gp2x but I can select and pick what I want that way atleast... like build and make sendmail etc...

so anyone think it is possible?

 

[Shikaku]

There would be RAM problems if we use a modern build: yes it is very possible, but everything has to be recompiled for the ARM architecture, and stripped down so it could fit in 64 MB of RAM.

Basically, if you want those programs port them yourself: we have terminal access already, some ports could be as simple as a compile for ARM and a few line changes.

 

[nemonoid]

Well... I was thinking is it possible to install say debian linux for arm on a usb hd somehow? I am missing alot of things in this current version...

Hmm I know they are alot bigger and might be to heavy for my poor gp2x but I can select and pick what I want that way atleast... like build and make sendmail etc...

so anyone think it is possible?

I've created an OpenEmbedded based environment for the GP2X which includes most of the standard Linux tools. It runs as a chroot environment alongside the existing firmware using a loopback image or and ext2 formatted SD card.

I never bothered with sendmail or any of the build tools as I didn't think there would be any demand but it would just be a simple matter of compiling and installing them via ipkg, which is very similar to dpkg. I'll add them to the list for the next release!

You can find an early release here

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nem.

 

[torpor]

The answer is a Big Fat Yes: Roll Your Own.

I have a USB partition on my JOBO with a full slack10.1-ARM bootup, but i'm not sharing it (coz its a bit borked) until i can get it fully self-building; i.e. it has all it needs on-board to build itself, natively ..

And for those of you who think that 32megs and USB-based /swap is 'too slow' to maintain a fully self-hosted build environment (i.e. death to cross-compile), I'd like to remind you that such a machine of now-humble power, for doing full system builds sufficient to the target machine usage (and the GP2X doesn't have -that- much to compile, strictly, over and over), used to be highly covet'ed ..

i mean to say, hell yeah you can get a full-source 'normal' linux rig on an external disk .. get distcc onboard fast, and you can still 'cross-compile', only ignoring the non-local aspect completely ..

 

[lokomotiv]

Well... I was thinking is it possible to install say debian linux for arm on a usb hd somehow? I am missing alot of things in this current version...

Hmm I know they are alot bigger and might be to heavy for my poor gp2x but I can select and pick what I want that way atleast... like build and make sendmail etc...

so anyone think it is possible?

I've created an OpenEmbedded based environment for the GP2X which includes most of the standard Linux tools. It runs as a chroot environment alongside the existing firmware using a loopback image or and ext2 formatted SD card.

I never bothered with sendmail or any of the build tools as I didn't think there would be any demand but it would just be a simple matter of compiling and installing them via ipkg, which is very similar to dpkg. I'll add them to the list for the next release!

You can find an early release here

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nem.

cool any chance you can add rtorrent to the list too? in that case you have done all the work I was hoping to do... I will for sure download and try what you have done! Thanks mate