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- From: jblaine@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Jeff Blaine)
- Subject: 0.99 Succes!
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 17:55:47 GMT
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- After seeing the post from Linus on Sunday afternoon, I decided to get 0.99
- and try my hand at compiling the kernel. I had never compiled the kernel
- before, but had simply always gotten the SLS upgrades which are easy to
- install.
-
- After 20 or so minutes of reading through documentation and following
- directions, I had all of the dependencies made and the configure script
- was run. I chose: No TCP/IP, No Sound, No CDROM support, No SCSI and
- the standard Minix fs and Extended fs to be added. Yipee.
-
- make dep barfed on some error about the iso filesystem for CDROM.
- This problem was cleared up in a file I found under Incoming on Sunsite.
-
- [Several 50 minute compile seessions later and a few more grey hairs]
-
- make was now choking on some problem with tcpip.o. Now, I'm thinking
- to myself "I told the config script NO CDROM and got an error, then
- I told it NO TCP/IP and got an error with TCP/IP" Lovely.
- This was fixed also by help from a few e-mail responses and the above-
- mentioned file from Sunsite.
-
- Finally I thought "What more can go wrong? I mean, You've spent
- about 4 or 5 hours now trying to get this thing to compile, eventually
- either you will grow old and die trying or it will work."
-
- make stopped with an error about a net.o file not found. Nice.
- This was fixed through suggestions in an e-mail response to a
- very flustered and annoyed post I made. Thanks.
-
- Now that I had all the makefiles properly straightened out, I ran
- a make clean and then recreated the empty tcpip.a archive which was
- needed.
-
- Yehaw. It worked. I then moved the Image to a floppy to boot from.
- Reboot.
- System hangs.
- Frown.
- Boot up DOS, login to account, read news, find fix. This is too much.
-
- So then I applied yet another miniscule fix to inode.c which Linus
- posted. I then did a make clean and make dep to make sure.
- This run of make was fine and a new Image was produced. I moved the
- Image to a floppy, rebooted, YAY!!!!
-
- So let's see here:
-
- I had to re-make everything about 6 times. At about 50 minutes per
- compile on a 386-25/387 with no other processes running, that's a
- nice big fat 5 hours. Not to mention the frustration.
-
- The moral of the story is, wait a week before deciding to upgrade
- when a new version comes out.
-
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- | Jeff Blaine | cblaine@gnu.ai.mit.edu | jblaine@garnet.acns.fsu.edu |
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