AMIX installation made easy...no tape drive!

[Failure]

After a bit of futzing around, I am rewarded with this:

# ./xgcc -v
Using builtin specs.
gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)

Still not done compiling all the other stuff, 25MHz is slooooow for all this code.  One of the unfortunate aspects of working with AMIX is these lengthy compiles...I start the compilation in a screen session, log out, come back some hours later and it has errored out on something.  On the bright side, I replaced the HD in the machine when I reinstalled, so I have 100MB swap and everything is faster since the HD is a better one.  In particular, multitasking was helped.  It used to take several seconds to get a login via telnet if the machine was compiling, now it is very fast.

This compile is using m68k-cbm-sysv4 as a target and at least for gcc, it works fine.

Hey I know what I need!  distcc!  :-)

[Failure]

I have just finished a rewrite of the installation documentation incorporating the new information re: installing using AmigaOS to prepare (thanks to Matt and Dal), along with installation using a single HD and more detailed information regarding pitfalls in the installation process.

I am really tired so I probably made some mistakes or weird statements, it's a wiki so feel free to fix them!

http://amix.failsure.net/tiki-index.php?page=dd+Install

Enjoy and as usual, best of luck to anybody who gives this a shot.

Brief status update on gcc.  My AMIX box has been compiling for about 5 straight days.  gcc-2.95.3 is going to take more work, so I am jumping from version to version up from 2.4.5 until it breaks.  I am compiling 2.7.2.3 now, 2.5.8 and 2.6.3 compiled fine as well.