On Oct 3, 7:01 am, KK wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am working on Minix 3.1.2a in Qemu. After installing Minix I tried
> 'packman'. In the options given I tried option 4. It says: "No package
> list found - retrieving initial version.\nFetching package list." and
> nothing happens. (this is with image IDE-3.1.2a.iso)
>
> Hence I downloaded some of the softwares (from Minix3 site) and
> created an ISO, did an 'isoread' and extracted the software. For
> example I worked with php-5.1.2. When I do a './configure', I get the
> message: "Out of space". I do a 'df' and I see only 17% of my /home
> partition is used. I do 'mined configure', I get "File too big\nError
> code 12". Is this a RAM issue or disk space issue. How do I go about
> installation packages?
>
> Any help will be very useful for me.
>
> Thank you,
> KK

I am only familiar with one of the errors. Mined will only open up
files to a certain size. You should try elle (Elle Looks Like Emacs).
That helped my file size limitation problem. I hope this helps.

On Oct 3, 5:01 am, KK wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am working on Minix 3.1.2a in Qemu. After installing Minix I tried
> 'packman'. In the options given I tried option 4. It says: "No package
> list found - retrieving initial version.\nFetching package list." and
> nothing happens. (this is with image IDE-3.1.2a.iso)
>
> Hence I downloaded some of the softwares (from Minix3 site) and
> created an ISO, did an 'isoread' and extracted the software. For
> example I worked with php-5.1.2. When I do a './configure', I get the
> message: "Out of space". I do a 'df' and I see only 17% of my /home
> partition is used. I do 'mined configure', I get "File too big\nError
> code 12". Is this a RAM issue or disk space issue. How do I go about
> installation packages?
>
> Any help will be very useful for me.
>
> Thank you,
> KK

Hi KK! I wouldn't bother trying to modify the configure file as it is
quite large and unnecessary. Some information about your system would
be useful, for instance how much RAM you have allocated to MINIX?
There is a script in the base package directory called build.minix
that should be used to configure/build/install the software for you.
Of course, there are some software prereqs that need to be available
for the build as well. If you want to start poking around at the
build process for this software package, I would suggest viewing the
build.minix file. I also put a README.minix3 file in the base package
directory that might have some useful information in it. I don't use
QEMU, but I do use VMWare, Bochs, and real hardware for Minix and have
not had a problem with packman. Can you provide screenshot(s) of
where you get stuck? With a little more information we can probably
get your packman issue resolved.

James T. Sprinkle - The Grue
http://www.myspace.com/jamestsprinkle

On Oct 3, 2:01 pm, KK wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am working on Minix 3.1.2a in Qemu. After installing Minix I tried
> 'packman'. In the options given I tried option 4. It says: "No package
> list found - retrieving initial version.\nFetching package list." and
> nothing happens. (this is with image IDE-3.1.2a.iso)

Does your network work? (ping minix3.org)

The following may be useful to you:
http://www.minixtips.com/2006/06/run...nder-qemu.html

> Hence I downloaded some of the softwares (from Minix3 site) and
> created an ISO, did an 'isoread' and extracted the software. For
> example I worked with php-5.1.2. When I do a './configure', I get the
> message: "Out of space". I do a 'df' and I see only 17% of my /home
> partition is used. I do 'mined configure', I get "File too big\nError
> code 12". Is this a RAM issue or disk space issue. How do I go about
> installation packages?

Don't work in /root. Create a separate user account or just use the
designated directory: /usr/src/commands

Calling configure directly will hardly ever work since it uses /bin/sh
which
does not have nearly enough memory assigned to it by default. (You can
change this, but you probably shouldn't)

I use the following build.minix script for compilation with GCC:
http://www.few.vu.nl/~marco/gnu.build
It's unnecesarrily complex but takes care of some common problems
and works for most software.

Marco

Hi all,

'packman' problem was that I didn't have network configured and
packman option 4 was trying to update before installing those on CD.
It is working now. 'php' also compiled fine now with build.minix
(other than errors saying that it requires some other packages which
will be fine after I install them.)

Thank you all,
KK.

On Oct 4, 2:39 am, Marco Slot wrote:
> On Oct 3, 2:01 pm, KK wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > I am working on Minix 3.1.2a in Qemu. After installing Minix I tried
> > 'packman'. In the options given I tried option 4. It says: "No package
> > list found - retrieving initial version.\nFetching package list." and
> > nothing happens. (this is with image IDE-3.1.2a.iso)
>
> Does your network work? (ping minix3.org)
>
> The following may be useful to you:
> http://www.minixtips.com/2006/06/run...nder-qemu.html
>
> > Hence I downloaded some of the softwares (from Minix3 site) and
> > created an ISO, did an 'isoread' and extracted the software. For
> > example I worked with php-5.1.2. When I do a './configure', I get the
> > message: "Out of space". I do a 'df' and I see only 17% of my /home
> > partition is used. I do 'mined configure', I get "File too big\nError
> > code 12". Is this a RAM issue or disk space issue. How do I go about
> > installation packages?
>
> Don't work in /root. Create a separate user account or just use the
> designated directory: /usr/src/commands
>
> Calling configure directly will hardly ever work since it uses /bin/sh
> which
> does not have nearly enough memory assigned to it by default. (You can
> change this, but you probably shouldn't)
>
> I use the following build.minix script for compilation with GCC:
> http://www.few.vu.nl/~marco/gnu.build
> It's unnecesarrily complex but takes care of some common problems
> and works for most software.
>
> Marco