[Arm-dev] Getting started / Build machines

Wed Jul 30 13:34:22 UTC 2014
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

If I better understood the build process, I would spend the $100 for 
another Cubie if needed.  Going to have to get another one for the 
server anyway.  Thing is will the C2 with 1GB memory be enough, or the 
Ctruck with 2GB memory?  I have 2 production Intel servers that I would 
be interested in replacing.  First my DNS server, onlo.htt-consult.com.  
All it runs is DNS; I would like to get DNSSEC working at some point.  
z9n9z is my mial server.  I built a C6 replacement for it, but still 
have not rolled it out.  Minimally I would do a C7 build on the 
replacement hardware to check out all of the components before trying 
this on arm.

Finally my Win server is ClearOS.  Would be nice to bring that into the 
fold (at least ClearOS was closer to my target than AMAHI was). Oh and 
Medon is a test/web server.  So actually there are 4 systems I would 
like to move over to arm.  At that point, I would just order 5 systems 
direct and save a few bucks.  But I have to know it will work.  Yearend 
is OK target date.

On 07/30/2014 04:42 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> Same here - real life and this thing called "day job" has a
> knack for getting in the way of doing cool and interesting
> stuff like this done.
>
> On 2014-07-30 08:58, D.S. Ljungmark wrote:
>> Not much has happened on my end. Lock setup and running, but as I said
>> earlier, lacking time.
>> On 30 Jul 2014 03:41, "Robert Moskowitz" <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Other than my posts, this list has been quite since Jul 3rd.  Is
>>> there
>>> any activity on putting together builds as were mentioned that day?
>>>
>>> On 07/03/2014 09:33 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>>> 4GB of RAM is the biggest limitation. What I tend to do is attach
>>> a
>>>> decent, large SSD (LibreOffice needs nearly 40GB to build!!!) to
>>> each
>>>> builder, set up tons of swap (say, 8GB per core), and run as many
>>>> build threads as there are cores in the machine. That tends to
>>> yield
>>>> optimal hardware saturation even if some packages insist on
>>> building
>>>> single-threaded.
>>> I moved all of the July posts into Thunderbird so I could read them
>>> better.  And it seems that it might be beyond my minimal ablities.
>>>
>>> My Cubieboard 2 is an Allwinner A20 duo core with 1GB memory.  I
>>> have a
>>> 16GB SD for the OS for now.  It does have a real SATA2 interface
>>> to put
>>> a notebook sata drive on.  I have a few 320GB drives I can use.
>>>
>>> The F19 build uses the Sunxi 3.4 kernel.
>>>
>>> I will attempt to do a 'yum update --exclude=kern*' and I do have a
>>> few
>>> things to install (eg tigervnc-server).
>>>
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