gcc
Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: gcc
started by: soinsg
Posted by soinsg on Sep. 24 2003,19:25
Is there any chance of gcc being on the disc? Does tcc work just as well (hmm, I'll have to put make on a floppy or something)? I was recomended "Linux From Scratch" (56k, old hardware, linux newbie), but the book says I need a host distro to compile stuff from, chicken and egg scenerio I'm afraid.
Posted by ImNotHere on Sep. 25 2003,00:45
I am pretty sure that GCC is not on here.. its about as big as this whole distro so yeah.. I really doubt it.. sorry
Posted by sevengraff on Sep. 25 2003,01:50
Did you try using knoppix, soinsg?
Posted by ImNotHere on Sep. 25 2003,02:20
| Quote |
| 56k, old hardware |
Knoppix barely runs on my 1.6 gHz with 384 MB of ram, I doubt it would run on older hardware....
Posted by sevengraff on Sep. 25 2003,03:31
It runs fine on my 900mhz 384 ram...can save some resources if you run in fluxbox. Just something to try.
Posted by ImNotHere on Sep. 25 2003,03:40
yeah.. I guess it all comes down to what you call old hardware
Posted by dallas7 on Sep. 25 2003,05:08
Knoppix 3.2 and 3.3 rock on a P3/500 with 192 MB I've got here for "test to destruct" fun. As does DSL. Sounds like there may be problems with that 1.6GHz/384MB system.
Posted by ImNotHere on Sep. 25 2003,06:19
well.. its a laptop with a slow (x24) cd rom drive...
Posted by Zipslack on Sep. 25 2003,14:03
I've run Knoppix 3.2 on my K6-2/475 laptop with 96 meg RAM and 12x CD - it runs fine...just takes a while to load. If you use older/slower stuff DO NOT USE KDE/GNOME! Fluxbox of IceWM make your life a lot easier and quicker and you still have access to the KDE and Gnome stuff.
Posted by ImNotHere on Sep. 25 2003,15:32
yeah.. I guess that makes more sense...
Posted by soinsg on Sep. 25 2003,20:59
I've got Knoppix on GetRight, only 3% done and it looks like I can't get anymore until this software patent thing blows over.I'm using a PII 233 with 128mb ram and 2mb gfx.
Posted by wiak on Sep. 28 2003,06:31
Knoppix 3.2 works on my 128 mb ram, 751 mhz cpu! Laptop! 
Posted by PhrozenFear on Mar. 14 2004,07:19
If you guys call that old, I hate to think of what you call my laptop - Pentium MMX 233, 64 ram, 3 gig HD, either 4 or 8x cdrom.
Posted by Modrak on Mar. 16 2004,21:08
| Quote (PhrozenFear @ Mar. 14 2004,07:19) |
| If you guys call that old, I hate to think of what you call my laptop - Pentium MMX 233, 64 ram, 3 gig HD, either 4 or 8x cdrom. |
I've got even worse one
Pentium MMX 166 MHz
32 MB SDRAM
Some SiS graphics 1MB
20 GB Seagate 4200rpm
15,1" viewable display size...realy big but only 1024x768
CD-RW 10x read 4x write 1x rewrite
Batery remains 1 hour and something (booting takes it :-)
My dad gave it to me because he got IBM ThinkPAD R40 for about $1500 WOW
Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 17 2004,03:07
Try this one on for size:Pentium-1 60Mhz, 40MB RAM, 4GB hard disk, 2x CDROM, 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives, ATI Mach 64 graphics card, Intel EExpress PRO ISA network card and 14" CTX monitor capable of 800x600x16bit color.
All of which run reasonably well on DSL. Don't have enough RAM to run Firebird/Firefox from the LiveCD/poor man's install, but it will run Opera 6.12 (using DSL 0.4.8).
Posted by PhrozenFear on Mar. 19 2004,12:00
Not bad.Now, wanna help a semi-n00b out ? I've got this loverly Thinkpad 380XD (the one I described there) and it's resolution is locked at 800x600 - anything larger just doesn't display. Now, the default boot loads up in 1024x768. So how do I make it so the thing boots up into 800x600 ? I tried all the xserver ideas, and it didn't work properly - colours were screwy. So I tried some fb modes, and it defaults to 1024x768, but the colours are workable. So how do I get the FB method of colours with the xvesa mode of size ?
Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 20 2004,18:30
The xfbdev server is your answer.The xfbdev server works this way:
You decide what your framebuffer looks like on bootup (size, color depth, etc).
After you boot is complete, the xfbdev server uses your existing framebuffer settings to run an XWindows server.
So try playing around with some framebuffer boot commands at the boot prompt until you have a screen configuration that pleases you. Then run the xfbdev server once booting is complete.