[ale] CentOS 7 install driving me mad

[Chuck Payne]

This might help

http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/i386/

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
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> From: "DJ-Pfulio" <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com>
> To: ale at ale.org
> Sent: Friday, June 3, 2016 2:11:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] CentOS 7 install driving me mad
>
> Just because something **can** be done, doesn´t make it a good idea.
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>
> <disclaimer>drinking some moonshine on bday</disclaimer>
>
> Just because you think it may not be a good idea does not make it so.  World
> is so much bigger than that :)
>
>
> The end game is this.  I want to move my dev tree from CentOS 5 i386 (the
> real deal.  Not some bullsh*t where someone has labeled i686 as i386).
> to CentOS 7 i586.  This allows me to support this:
>
> vyos at vyos:~/nDPI-1.8$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : Genuine RDC
> cpu family : 5
> model : 8
> model name : 05/08
> stepping : 6
> cpu MHz : 999.982
> physical id : 0
> siblings : 1
> core id : 0
> cpu cores : 1
> apicid : 0
> initial apicid : 0
> fdiv_bug : no
> f00f_bug : no
> coma_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 1
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu tsc cx8 mmx
> bogomips : 1999.96
> clflush size : 32
> cache_alignment : 32
> address sizes : 32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
> power management:
>
> vyos at vyos:~/nDPI-1.8$
>
> And to support a Baytrail.
>
> While Joe blow may have only one RDC based device I have HUNDREDS.  I have
> 300 J1900 BayTrail devices.
>
> If I can move to a base of CentOS 7 i586 then I may keep typing and split
> the SVN tree to support i586 and the BayTrail.  This will give me
> optimization on both platforms for the CPU.
>
> I can no longer purchase the RDC hardware, but I have to support it.  I also
> have a limited stock of it for internal use.  Right now I'm using one as a
> pfsense router on my home network.  I have another running Asterisk PBX.  I
> am not running X.  I'm running stuff where the load average is typically
> 0.25 or less!  So why would it not be a good idea?
>
> It looks to me like 3.13 is happy.
>
> vyos at vyos:~/nDPI-1.8$ uname -a ;uptime
> Linux vyos 3.13.11-1-586-vyos #1 SMP Wed Aug 12 01:58:45 UTC 2015 i586
> GNU/Linux
> 18:38:08 up 44 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.05
> vyos at vyos:~/nDPI-1.8$
>
>
> This is one thing that grinds my gears.  "I don't believe people should be
> using MP3 codecs because it is not open therefore I will not make it
> available. I also believe that everyone should be on 64bit systems so I will
> not make 32bit available"  My original config program for Linux was VI so
> I'm capable of adding in the media repositories, but my gripe is based on me
> thinking of others who do not know how.  They must search "how to play MP4
> on Ubuntu".  At least Ubuntu now allows you to make your own decisions.
>
>
> As a ham I can also break it down like this:
>
> "Just because you don't use a radio does not mean everyone else does not.
> Do not assume that something is obsolete."
>
> In the final I need to weight this:
>
> Do the benefits of compiling everything for the target CPU outweigh the
> management headache of two trees and two firmware packages?
>
> That does not address the fact that compiling modern packages for CentOS 5.X
> is getting harder.  I guess I could recompile the whole dev environment and
> shove the packages of 7 into 5?
>
>
> What sucks is that this project is a real time sink.  I get an idea and walk
> that path for 8+ hours.  Change my mind and stop for a while.  Repeat.
>
> One  really great idea is Cross LFS.  I worked that for 10 hours then my
> patience grew thin and I screwed it up.  I even did a PI2 to x86-i586 so I'd
> learn more.  CentOS 7 is just a target.  Linux 4.X via i586 Cross-LFS is
> acceptable and I may try again next week.  This time I'm going to write
> scripts for the stages.  Put the RDC on gigabit for NFS instead of wireless
> bridge.
>
>
> Sure, I could do CentOS 6, but I'm burning up time and doing 7 gets me that
> much ahead.
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