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

Hi Randy,

2007/9/19, Randy Macleod <macleodr@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>    Hi,
>
> No word since September 5th...
> Are people busy or is my email not clear?

both, I would say ;-)

You already found out that the live CD did not include ncurses
development header files, and for development purposes probably other
packages are missing, too.

It would be safer to use the 6.0.1 release (t2-minimal) to setup your
build environment, if you already have another linux distro up and
running that may work as well. Follow the quick build guide at:
  http://www.t2-project.org/documentation/buildintro.html
and choose the right branch for you: 7.0-rc or trunk is up to date
(but may not build straight), 6.0 is the latest stable release.


>
> // Randy
> -------------------
> 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 is not an install guide, actually Susanne wrote:
  > sorry, currently T2 Live CDs do not include a installer.


> 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... ;-)

It is generally possible to install from a live CD, but requires some
manual tweaks, especially partioning and boot loader setup. If you
already have this setup, using rsync is the right way to go,
  rsync -avHx /mnt/live/ /mnt/target/
may be a good starting point.

But there are still the development packages missing, see above.

> 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


Michael