nanogui: ELKS problems
Subject:
RE: ELKS problems
From:
Greg Haerr ####@####.####
Date:
29 Jun 1999 17:11:30 -0000
Message-Id: <01BEC21F.6F5CF3D0.greg@censoft.com>
: Making the contents of images.zip is not fully automatic, but most of the
: work is done by the Makefiles. I change the Makefile a bit between buidlign
: comb and root (modify size etc.)
:
I would *really* like a makefile that automatically makes your
distribution. (its a quality thing...)
: >
: > elks "make disk" makes boot, which seems to be called root in distribution.
:
: Checking with my copy, boot in images.zip is definatly a boot kernel image,
: and root is a root disk image.
This should be called "make root". Then "make rootdisk" makes a root
floppy. There should also be a "make boot"
:
: > elkscmd "make floppy" makes root, which seems to be called comb...
: > Isn't there a standard makefile function to make these images?
:
: Make floppy attempts to build an image of a combined disk, but calls it
: root.
This should be changed to "make comb". I also had to comment back
in the dd for the boot load 512 byte image or it wouldn't boot.
:
: Make min_rfs makes a small root disk without kernel boot loader on it.
:
: >
: > On my system (Caldera 2.2) the dev86 package won't make. It
: > requires an old /usr/bin/ar (this core dumps), and a change in elksemu to include
: > <sys/time.h>. I will send a patch for this.
Do you want the patch or shall I send it to Rob?
: >
: > In addition, the elkscmd requires changes in byacc/Makefile
: > and ash/mknode.c, and uses a redefinition of utmp stuff in utent.c. I'll send
: > a patch on this as well.
: >
:
: >From what you are saying I gather that you have not been able to get in
: touch with Reb de Bath about the changes to Dev-86? I looks as though we
: will have to put together an new patched version. The utent.c in elkscmd
: fixes some major bugs in the dev86 version. I included it until the patch
: was merged into dev86, but this has not happened.
It wouldn't hurt for us to maintain working patches, since we're starting
to get some people trying to use/compile ELKS, nano-X, etc, and I don't
want people to have stupid problems... We need all the help and input we can
get. Everyone should be able to exactly duplicate the binary distribution
from scratch.
Greg
