[openbeos] Re: cross compiling
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 09:58:02 +0200 (MEST)
En réponse à Eike Dehling <e.e.dehling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > > > If you're willing to play about with repartitioning your hard-disc
> (or
> > > buying a
> > > > small new one) you can install BeOS PE onto partitions by
> > > >
> > > > --Burning beos.img (? the 0.5 GB file) as an ISO image on NERO.
> > > > --Boot off of the CD
> > > > --Install BeOS off of that onto the virgin partition.
> > > >
> > > > Your BeOS system will be the same as before - but with several
> gigs of
> > > room to
> > > > play with. It's almost miraculous when it works.
> > >
> > > This assumes that you have windows. If you have any unix based
> system
> > > do
> > > this
> > >
> > > dd if=/dev/hda5 of=/dev/hda6
> > >
> > > assuming that
> > >
> > > /dev/hda5 = old beos partition
> > > /dev/hda6 = new beos partition
> > >
> > > Don't do this if you don't know what you are doing!!
> > >
> >Better use the installer... doing this only works when partitions are
> the
> >same size, else copying from 500MB to 3 BG you'll end up loosing 2.5 GB
> of
> >space, and still have a 500 MB filesystem.
> >
> >François.
>
> All these solutions assume one thing: plenty of disk space, and i only
> have
> 2 Gig. so installing windows and another OS is not really an option.
> BeOS R5 just fits, but lacks space to compile ...
> That installer thing is interesting: i will certainly install it on a
> separate partition as soon as i have a new hard drive. (besides: can i
> boot
> BeOS with grub or another boot-loader ?)
>
Yes, at least with LILO for partitions just add the partition as a DOS one
(make sure you did
makebootable /boot
).
On older version (R4) one could add zbeos like a Linux kernel, but it looks
like it doesn't work in R5 :-(
Btw this topic would be more suited to beusertalk or something.
> So: the question if i can compile from within windows still remains on.
> (so
> what i would like is a set of tools to compile the system with, ports of
>
> the BeOS tools) for example Minix has such a 'tool box' and 'NewOS' on
>
> which we are building ...
>
Hmm, maybe check for a linux crossgcc running in win ?
> Anyhow: thanks for the advices... it should get me going.
>
> Eike.
>
>
>
François.
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