re-send: T2 in Vmware using 7.0-rc live CD - install, compile problems

  Hi,

No word since September 5th...
Are people busy or is my email not clear?


// Randy
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Hi,

 I downloaded the T2 7.0-rc iso image and
I'm able to boot it in VmWare Workstation (version 5.5.1).

T2 looks like an interesting system for embedded development.
I'd like to use this VmWare system as a test cross-compile system.


I created a partition on my virtual disk using cfdisk
and did:
 mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hda1.
 mkdir /mnt/target
 mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/target

I tried to install the live cd image as described
here:

<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.t2.devel/3136>

That didn't work as described since the live CD
hides stuff under /mnt/live. Initially the tar
script worked but didn't install the files found
in /mnt/live. The I started to rsync the files
from /mnt/live to /mnt/target but I must have forgotten
an option to rsync and I figured I'd bug this list... ;-)

Any news on the automagic installer?
Will there soon be an update to the CD?

Does anyone have the exact steps to copy/convert
the live CD to an empty disk? If not I'll see what
I can figure out but I don't have much (enough!) time for
fiddling with things like this...



Next I tried to use the live CD as a build
environment with the intention of building the
desktop target and installing it onto my virtual
harddisk.

I tried the instructions in the excellent documentation
and this:
<http://www.t2-project.org/documentation/buildintro.html>

As root I type:
./scripts/Config -cfg system
The gcc compiler is found but immediately
complains about not finding sys/types.h

after many many warnings and errors I think there
is a comment that ncurses-devel was not found.
I could work out these issues but it would be nice
if things just worked so that more folks will use T2...
What's up?

If the issues identified above are not easily solved,
I'm tempted to just cross compile from another linux box
but I'd like to help work out the bugs/newbie issues with
T2.

// Randy