Re: Newbie experience

Hello Stéphane,

  Glad you like T2 and you are right, you will learn of lot of things and how 
they works. I was also like you
3 years ago. I've started to use T2 under the advice of a friend. It's still a 
great pleasure to use it, make
some packages time to time and I'm still learning a lot :-P

  Anyway, do not hesitate to join us on the IRC channel, I've found a lot of 
help there!

   Et comme je suis aussi Français, je pourrais d'autant mieux te comprendre :-P

  CU

    LMJ


Le Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:46:38 +0200,
Stéphane LOS <slos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> Hi there, happy to meet you !
> 
> I am looking at those "funny" things called meta distributions and there 
> are many around, though less than distributions...
> 
> So soon there will be more and more Linux distributions to deal with... 
> I don't know what to think about it, you know, the compatibility stuff, 
> but anyway I like the idea of having my own system ! Well, built with 
> the bricks of all those brilliant Linux developers...
> 
> Then I found T2 and felt interested in it because of its support of 
> several architectures and OSes, and its design though I have to dive 
> more deeply in it to appreciate at full !
> 
> The documentation, the book is interesting and I would surely be a buyer 
> when it is sold !
> 
> Sometime before, I had burnt a CD with the 6.03 and could not figure out 
> what to do with it. Had not to much time at this moment so I gave it up 
> for a while.
> 
> Two days ago, I started again to work on it at home on my Mandriva 2007 
> Spring, and SVN the t2-trunk.
> Selected the desktop target and downloaded everything just fine. I 
> thought : what a wonderful tool !
> 
> Then the build : things went wrong when building linux headers, because 
> fl_wrapper writing outside of the correct location... Don't ask me why.
> 
> So I read carefully the documentation and found that it would build 
> better on a T2 distribution. I went to the ISOs and downloaded the last 
> stable one : 7.0 rc. Don't know what rc means...
> 
> And things gone worth : my CDs are 700Mb ones and the image does not fit 
> in it, 760Mb...
> I have tried the overburn option in K3B but the burn stopped at 724... 
> And the CD was dead.
> 
> I have tried to figure out how it could be possible to install directly 
> from the iso on the disk...
> Mounted the iso on a loop and copied everything to a partition on the 
> disk and boot on it.
> The thing started and complained about not being able to find the stuff 
> on the CD. So I felt something was telling it to search the CD and not 
> the disk where it started. And I tried to open the initrd.img but I 
> could not do with gunzip and mounting it as ext2...
> Finally I bought 800Mb CDs and burnt one then installed it, well I tried...
> 
> It ended up with the mailing list where I found I had to install the 
> 6.01 version, what I did last night.
> 
> So I have installed the T2 6.01 minimal in a partition, copied the 
> t2-trunk from my Mandriva/home/los to a new ext3 partition (cp -a 
> complained about some attributes it was not able to set) and mounted the 
> partition to the T2 minimal.
> 
> Then it was possible to run the ./scripts/Config and the Build-Target and...
> 
> The build was going on after the linux-headers and I went to bed letting 
> it continue all night long... but it stopped when building the 
> linux2.6.22, after 41 successful packets built.
> 
> I will try again during the week end but when you have any suggestion...
> 
> I like this project anyway. Great job !
> I think I am going to learn a lot here...
> 

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