Re: Linux releases

[Paul <Paul.Corner-at-tesco.net>]

Hi Ian

I briefly flirted with Mandrake 8.0 (a cover disk that wasn't bootable). After
I got it installed and configured, I tried. After several abortive attempts, I
switched to RH7.2..... Mandrake 8.x is very close to RH7.x releases, so notes
and comments are interchangeable.
If you must go this route, use egcs (kgcc) to compile the kernel, rcslib, and
EMC. Delete gcc and g++, or rename them, and make links to egcs for both
compilers. Kernel versions 2.4.5 and above generate numerous errors with egcs,
but rtai will not compile with gcc 2.96. With Jon Elson's ppmc code in the CVS
sources, the rtai build of EMC is broken - Jon or myself need to add a bunch of
#ifdefs and #includes to fix it.

Also tried compiling a 2.2.19 kernel on RH7.2 today - It appeared to work until
I tried shutting down. The kernel locked up solid before the file systems were
unmounted.


Regards, Paul.


On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Ian Wright wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I got RH7.2 up and running (on an ATI Rage II + DVD video card), but, on the
> P266 machine I put it on, it was *extremely* slow compared to other
> releases. I can only assume that is something to do with the new ext3 file
> system.
> 
> I've just loaded up Mandrake 8.0 on the same machine - much faster and
> slicker but I haven't tried to patch rtl or rtai in yet - anyone tried
> setting up emc on Mandrake 8.0 yet??
> 
> Ian
> --
> Ian W. Wright
> Sheffield  UK
> www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk