| 17:55 | Kiranos | is there no info about the new installer on the wiki? |
| 17:56 | Kiranos | and about this: http://www.solid-run.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=817 |
| 17:56 | Kiranos | 3. Connect micro-USB cable and get a terminal up and running. Preferred putty since the installer uses colors |
| 17:57 | Kiranos | how does a micro-USB get a terminal up and running? |
| 19:08 | shesselba | Kiranos: the micro-usb is connected to a usb-to-serial chip that will give you access to the serial console aka terminal |
| 19:20 | N30N | Kiranos: http://www.solid-run.com/mw/index.php/Setting_Up_Serial_Port |
| 19:39 | Kiranos | ok I've not delved into this before, is there a usb-to-serial chip on sale anywhere that is usually availible everywhere? |
| 19:40 | Kiranos | So I cant simply connect keyboard to the usb and attach monitor :P |
| 19:40 | Kiranos | ? |
| 19:40 | Kiranos | as you might understand I'm more of a userland user/programmer |
| 19:41 | Kiranos | userspace.. |
| 19:44 | N30N | You just need a micro usb (type B) cable to connect the cubox to your computer |
| 19:45 | Kiranos | ok nice, no userfriendly "this is how you set it up" on the wiki? I see a place for one |
| 19:45 | N30N | Feel free to add it ;) |
| 19:49 | Kiranos | yea but I'm the one needing it :P |
| 21:05 | Wizzup | dung: why did you add this to the gentoo wiki article: > On Gentoo installing a package meens building. In generall it's perfect to use binaries optimized for a specific machine, but compiling on CuBox is slow. |
| 21:05 | Wizzup | http://www.solid-run.com/mw/index.php?title=Gentoo_on_CuBox&action=historysubmit&diff=1993&oldid=676 |
| 21:07 | dung | is it not true? |
| 21:08 | dung | cause Gentoo is both, install and build |
| 21:08 | Wizzup | Well, 1) The english isn't really proper 2) It seems to be a somewhat negative comment, and also added right at the start of the wiki article |
| 21:09 | Wizzup | Everyone who is going to install Gentoo knows he's building stuff from scratch |
| 21:09 | Wizzup | There's no point in saying it there, and it seems like a negative remark |
| 21:10 | dung | feel free to remove it. i do not have much experience with gentoo |
| 21:10 | Wizzup | I have :) |
| 21:10 | Wizzup | Thanks |
| 21:10 | dung | have you built on CuBox? i can imagine, it runs with distcc |
| 21:11 | Wizzup | No, everything was compiled on the cubox |
| 21:11 | Wizzup | cubox ~ # uptime |
| 21:11 | Wizzup | 21:16:09 up 73 days, 3:13, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 |
| 21:12 | dung | nice :) |
| 21:12 | Wizzup | It didn't really take that much time |
| 21:12 | Wizzup | I just emerge'd something and started doing something else |
| 21:13 | rmull | I too use a source-based package manager, and building on the cubox isn't too bad. |
| 21:13 | dung | I prefer compiling, but sorted it last on the wiki |
| 21:16 | dung | it's not the first thing after power on for most |
| 21:18 | Wizzup | What do you mean? |
| 21:18 | rmull | dung: Yeah, maybe, but it's still not fair to discourage them from doing it |
| 21:20 | dung | the change to the gentoo wiki page was meant as a comment on sorting it last |
| 21:21 | dung | it's different from the others |
| 21:27 | dung | so we have installer, build-installer, tarballs and diskdumps |
| 21:30 | Wizzup | gentoo is pretty much tarball |
| 21:33 | dung | debootstrap is install |
| 21:38 | dung | vs tarball is copy |