My sister got married last weekend, so I decided to come early and do some paragliding.
The Saleve is a nice flying spot outside of Swiss Geneva, on the french side. There are four starting areas, and at least three landing areas.
Access to the Saleve is povided by a cable car service, for paragliders it will cost you around 5 bucks.
Right at the top, where the cable car ends, theres take off area #1. A short and sweet take off, with a crop of rocks off to the left. The problem here is mostly the wind direction, as soon as you leave the immidiate start area, there can be side winds...a second wind flag shows wind speed and direction a bit further out from the cropping.
For this starting area, there are two possible landing sites, #1 landing is pretty advanced,located in france, off to the left of the lower cable-car station there is about a 100 m long strip faceing N-S, no wind flag available, however closest to the cable car for reruns.
Landing area #2, on the swiss side, belongs to a local flight school. Very nice landing, two wind flags, and area to support landing from N-E-S-W. The field is divided into two sections for andvanced and beginner pilots. The down side to this landing area = a 10chf landing fee. It is however the closest to public transport to get you back to Geneva.
Starting area #2 is a 15-20 min hike up the ridge. With a short static start you should be in the air, be carefull of this area, it has the most soaring accidents and tree landings due to the irregular shapes of the rock face below and a large indent in rock croppings off to the left (creates a twister like thermic). Landing areas as depicted above.
Starting area #3 can be accesed either by a shuttle service driving up or by taking a @ hour and 1/2 hike. but the conditions here are beautiful. With a wide starting area, a really stable nce updrafts, many a pilot will use the starting area as a soar point. The slowly curving face below acts as a stabiliser for updrafts.
Landing area for #3 is directly below it, on the french side, it allows for a W-E landing, again, no wind flag with high trees blocking your aproche. Also a very dangerous aspect about this landing area is that it is right under a an updraft which creates bad turbulences. DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS LANDING AREA, and is possible (with >800m asl) land at the school landing area. You will not be able to see it from the area above and have to go furthur out into the open (away from the updrafts(loose hight)) to be able to spot it. Its on the far right of starting area #3
I learned the hard way, and almost broke some bones on that landing, when the wind just gave out and I droped about 5 m. I survived with a few bruises ;)...painful never the less.
I recomend the Saleve for pretty much beginner pilots such as myself as it has a very stable updraft with no real thermic turbulences. But be carefull about where you land.
Cheers
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
AiREA Shape Large
Today, we had some nice steady wind out in the flatlands behind the train station. I knew there was a front moving in, actually very dangerous conditions to play with a wing. But seeing that I hadnt really had the chance to test this wing before trading it in for something a bit more in my class...I did some research.
These are the specs.
When I bought the wing, I was under the impression that it was a 1-2 class wing. I was wrong, after studing the specs page, I found the wing to be closer to a "b-c" or 2/2-3 wing.
Definition of a class 2 wing :
"Paragliders with demanding flying characteristics and potentially dynamic reactions to turbulence and pilot errors. Recommended for regularly flying pilots."
The Shape Large is classified as a 2 however its also classed as a cross wing.
Here is a nice class comparison.
I figured, "I should wear a helmet for this test".
I found the wing to be quite agile in comparison to the DHV tests, which described the wing, in particular scenarios as average. It apperantly has a tendancy to over-shoot its position above me. Maybe this was just because I am used to a slower wing (bodygaurd), that reacted better to a low pull impulse. I also fully appreciated the way this wing, unlike other 1/a wings I have flown, responded to wight distrobution on the seatboard, allowing for very nice controll using weight translation. My harness (advance success) is pretty beginner, with a high connection point, to dampen any over zealous weight distrobution by noobs such as myself.
I found the experiance on a whole, to be nice, something that I would actually think about taking skywards, sometime in my future flights. I would compare this wings groundhandling action to something similar to a paratech p12, one size too small or a tad over the weight spec (with ultimate area loadage).
Anyway, before anyone starts to think Im an expert...which I am most definitly not...I have to show you a reason why I decided to call it a day. Remeber, I am crazy. This is not the first time I have done something as crazy as this...and its deffinitly not the crazyest thing I have done to date.
Originaly, I thought that the front would pass me by heading over the Rhein and on towards Karlsruhe. effectivly leaving a nice somewhat usable path of stable wind to wing on....I had my eye on the front moving in. Someone stoped in their car and actually got out and asked me if everything was okay. It was at this point in time that I actually figured that I should call it a day. None too soon, I pulled all the lines together and shot this picture.
I managed to grab my gear just as the wind started to really pick up. I assume that there were windspeeds of up 50 or so kmh, and that, just as I started to head towards a nearby underpass to foldup the wing.
What I learned today is I really really really need better schooling in meteorology. I thought I had correctly assesed the situation, I guess not, and nature is not to be underestimated.
Im lucky to have gotten away with my life.... again..... this is seriously the last time I do something this crazy....I hope. ;)
Cheers and good flight.
These are the specs.
When I bought the wing, I was under the impression that it was a 1-2 class wing. I was wrong, after studing the specs page, I found the wing to be closer to a "b-c" or 2/2-3 wing.
Definition of a class 2 wing :
"Paragliders with demanding flying characteristics and potentially dynamic reactions to turbulence and pilot errors. Recommended for regularly flying pilots."
The Shape Large is classified as a 2 however its also classed as a cross wing.
Here is a nice class comparison.
I figured, "I should wear a helmet for this test".
I found the wing to be quite agile in comparison to the DHV tests, which described the wing, in particular scenarios as average. It apperantly has a tendancy to over-shoot its position above me. Maybe this was just because I am used to a slower wing (bodygaurd), that reacted better to a low pull impulse. I also fully appreciated the way this wing, unlike other 1/a wings I have flown, responded to wight distrobution on the seatboard, allowing for very nice controll using weight translation. My harness (advance success) is pretty beginner, with a high connection point, to dampen any over zealous weight distrobution by noobs such as myself.
I found the experiance on a whole, to be nice, something that I would actually think about taking skywards, sometime in my future flights. I would compare this wings groundhandling action to something similar to a paratech p12, one size too small or a tad over the weight spec (with ultimate area loadage).
Anyway, before anyone starts to think Im an expert...which I am most definitly not...I have to show you a reason why I decided to call it a day. Remeber, I am crazy. This is not the first time I have done something as crazy as this...and its deffinitly not the crazyest thing I have done to date.
Originaly, I thought that the front would pass me by heading over the Rhein and on towards Karlsruhe. effectivly leaving a nice somewhat usable path of stable wind to wing on....I had my eye on the front moving in. Someone stoped in their car and actually got out and asked me if everything was okay. It was at this point in time that I actually figured that I should call it a day. None too soon, I pulled all the lines together and shot this picture.
I managed to grab my gear just as the wind started to really pick up. I assume that there were windspeeds of up 50 or so kmh, and that, just as I started to head towards a nearby underpass to foldup the wing.
What I learned today is I really really really need better schooling in meteorology. I thought I had correctly assesed the situation, I guess not, and nature is not to be underestimated.
Im lucky to have gotten away with my life.... again..... this is seriously the last time I do something this crazy....I hope. ;)
Cheers and good flight.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
The Walters near and wide.
SO.......
After leaving this post to stew a while, seeing that blogger just didnt post my very well tought out and politicaly correct post, I guess its time to rewrite this one.
The walter family has been well strewn. There was a time when we had one bro in the states, another in uganda, another in germany, 3 siblings and a mom in romania, with 3 in japan.
This year, we have a small family reunion going on in taiwan. phil, sony, gabe n jess are all off in the far off asia.
Moms spending the summer in romania.
Stef and joykie along with kai and myself are still here in DE.
Sims , mum n dad are further east then the rest....
So , you may be asking yourself, "Why is rew going on about this?". Simple, well statisticly Im kinda sure most of us will agree with me, that together we may have spent more time in far far way far off places then any other family that ...atleast, I know of.
The big deal is; it would appear as if we are trending more towards family gatherings. Im thinking, if we keep this up we may just may...tend further towards this trend of gathering.
Im seeing things this way:
Bro #1 works for colabora
Sister #1 works for the scouts international
Bro #2 is getting a job at buffalo networks
Bro# 3 is a very very famous Teacher in taiwan
bro #4 Is studing art
Sister #2 is in university (awsome)
Sister #3 is a missionary
and my favorite sister of all is studing and is an aspiring young writer.
That little list was , not for the walters, but more for all the others who dont really get my very strewn family. :)
Cheers
After leaving this post to stew a while, seeing that blogger just didnt post my very well tought out and politicaly correct post, I guess its time to rewrite this one.
The walter family has been well strewn. There was a time when we had one bro in the states, another in uganda, another in germany, 3 siblings and a mom in romania, with 3 in japan.
This year, we have a small family reunion going on in taiwan. phil, sony, gabe n jess are all off in the far off asia.
Moms spending the summer in romania.
Stef and joykie along with kai and myself are still here in DE.
Sims , mum n dad are further east then the rest....
So , you may be asking yourself, "Why is rew going on about this?". Simple, well statisticly Im kinda sure most of us will agree with me, that together we may have spent more time in far far way far off places then any other family that ...atleast, I know of.
The big deal is; it would appear as if we are trending more towards family gatherings. Im thinking, if we keep this up we may just may...tend further towards this trend of gathering.
Im seeing things this way:
Bro #1 works for colabora
Sister #1 works for the scouts international
Bro #2 is getting a job at buffalo networks
Bro# 3 is a very very famous Teacher in taiwan
bro #4 Is studing art
Sister #2 is in university (awsome)
Sister #3 is a missionary
and my favorite sister of all is studing and is an aspiring young writer.
That little list was , not for the walters, but more for all the others who dont really get my very strewn family. :)
Cheers
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
A cool site promoting hardware hacks.
This is a cool hack...DTMF is soemthing I have been interested in figuring out more about as its also apperantly what is used to encrypt certain Radio package transferes.
This however is way cooler. Its a bluetooth weatherboard that uses a java app on your phone to recieve all variometer information and display it on your phone. It even has GPS.
What it does:
This however is way cooler. Its a bluetooth weatherboard that uses a java app on your phone to recieve all variometer information and display it on your phone. It even has GPS.
What it does:
it tells me my speed over ground.
It can tell me my climb and decend speed.
What it dosnt:
I would still need to write some software to caculate things like...interface....more on this later
Price: The Price is not exactly dirt cheep (Im counting @ 200 usd afg), it is however about the same ammount that I would pay for a kinda "okay/used/old" vario from back in the day. Lets just say for this kind of capability , you usually pay around >400€
Benefit: you use your phone to monitor the information via bluetooth, so if your paragliding, you dont have to worry about getting an extra piece of gear to lug with you. I have a small solar charger panel, so adding these two items might be a really cool idea.
any way. Theres alot of fun stuff on this site...so check it out.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
woes of mac
Yesterday I awoke to a frozen mac. Nothing was responding. I forced a reboot and found that the system was apparently screwed.
I spent the better part of the day trying to figure out what could have caused the problem, was it the 64 gb of swap that I removed from my hard drive last week (8gb ram). With all that ram, osx seems to like putting a bunch of swap there for no apparent reason.
At the end of the day, I figured that the drive was shot. That would be really bad, as for one, a bunch of documents that I was finishing for my AB would have been gone with no backup, as well as a software project due in September (have been working on it since December) would have to be rewritten from scratch.
I broke out in panic when trying to boot hirens or sysrescue. Nothing could find sda, and due (I assume) to macs different device naming, none of my live systems could find /dev/cdrom. This meant that none of the live systems could mount their images on /mnt to continue on to the actual file repair systems.
Finally I found a copy of ubuntu 10.10, It booted. I started Gparted and ran some package updates to get hfs and journaled hfs+ file system support. I assume that hfsprogs is a kernel add-on, which means I would need to reboot or reload the kernel before being able to fix up the file system. On a live system this would mean acutally loosing hfs support since the cd is not writeable to save any changes, and a usb system cant be done due to apples stupidity and not allowing usb boots, something that has been standard since 07 or so.
A wisp of genious came along as I found a 2gb sdcard. I decided to install the /boot partition to the sdcard, as well as grub boot loader and install the rest of the system on a 8gb usb drive ... Its installing now.
--update--
The nice part about this, well at some point in time I installed an ubuntu system on a resizrd partitions free space, I gave it @30 gb, more then enough to install a rescue OSX.
Still I have the porblem of accessing my main hd as it is encrypted.
A cool thing is also, on my iomega ix-200 nas; to get time machine to backup over the network you do have to turn off security completely. Seeing that I am the only one to access my wpa2 enterprize encrypted wireless network (provided by the great dd-wrt people over at Buffalo) I think Im kinda safe, maybe thats the problem; I am too secure in my knowledge, so when it breaks, so do I. :( Also a nice aditive of not having security on is, the ssh connectivity to the drive. You can still controll access via users and shadows, the old linux way, but no shiny new web interface for that.
Oh these words of wisdom while fixing broken things that I could have avoided by trying to be less complicated in my "apparent Knowledge"....Im working on it.
I spent the better part of the day trying to figure out what could have caused the problem, was it the 64 gb of swap that I removed from my hard drive last week (8gb ram). With all that ram, osx seems to like putting a bunch of swap there for no apparent reason.
At the end of the day, I figured that the drive was shot. That would be really bad, as for one, a bunch of documents that I was finishing for my AB would have been gone with no backup, as well as a software project due in September (have been working on it since December) would have to be rewritten from scratch.
I broke out in panic when trying to boot hirens or sysrescue. Nothing could find sda, and due (I assume) to macs different device naming, none of my live systems could find /dev/cdrom. This meant that none of the live systems could mount their images on /mnt to continue on to the actual file repair systems.
Finally I found a copy of ubuntu 10.10, It booted. I started Gparted and ran some package updates to get hfs and journaled hfs+ file system support. I assume that hfsprogs is a kernel add-on, which means I would need to reboot or reload the kernel before being able to fix up the file system. On a live system this would mean acutally loosing hfs support since the cd is not writeable to save any changes, and a usb system cant be done due to apples stupidity and not allowing usb boots, something that has been standard since 07 or so.
A wisp of genious came along as I found a 2gb sdcard. I decided to install the /boot partition to the sdcard, as well as grub boot loader and install the rest of the system on a 8gb usb drive ... Its installing now.
--update--
The nice part about this, well at some point in time I installed an ubuntu system on a resizrd partitions free space, I gave it @30 gb, more then enough to install a rescue OSX.
Still I have the porblem of accessing my main hd as it is encrypted.
A cool thing is also, on my iomega ix-200 nas; to get time machine to backup over the network you do have to turn off security completely. Seeing that I am the only one to access my wpa2 enterprize encrypted wireless network (provided by the great dd-wrt people over at Buffalo) I think Im kinda safe, maybe thats the problem; I am too secure in my knowledge, so when it breaks, so do I. :( Also a nice aditive of not having security on is, the ssh connectivity to the drive. You can still controll access via users and shadows, the old linux way, but no shiny new web interface for that.
Oh these words of wisdom while fixing broken things that I could have avoided by trying to be less complicated in my "apparent Knowledge"....Im working on it.
Monday, May 23, 2011
New post!
So, Things are moving along. My software project is moving forward albeit slowly.
My final presentation is on the 18th of July, after that I'm oficcially done with my AB and may call myself a computer scientist.
Other news:
I'm looking for doners to an Andrew cause.
I'd like to make a trip to Italy during the Easter holidays to finish my A-Schein.I'm looking at a price tag of around 700€ complete.Seeing as I'm currently not able to take a second job due to the stipulations defined in my contract, I wanted to see if anyone maybe able to help towards this wish seeing completion.
If anyone Feels the wish to help make this dream of mine come true....leave a post in the comment section below.
I personally will be trying to make it happen by doing a bunch of little oddjobs to try and save up for this.
My final presentation is on the 18th of July, after that I'm oficcially done with my AB and may call myself a computer scientist.
Other news:
I'm looking for doners to an Andrew cause.
I'd like to make a trip to Italy during the Easter holidays to finish my A-Schein.I'm looking at a price tag of around 700€ complete.Seeing as I'm currently not able to take a second job due to the stipulations defined in my contract, I wanted to see if anyone maybe able to help towards this wish seeing completion.
If anyone Feels the wish to help make this dream of mine come true....leave a post in the comment section below.
I personally will be trying to make it happen by doing a bunch of little oddjobs to try and save up for this.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Südtirol: Rodeneck
Rodeneck was great. We didnt have the best weather, but spirits were high on the few days we did fly. On average a trip down to rodeneck will give you about 5 - 7 flights a day for 7 days. A liter of absolute and 4 L of orange juice made for good fun on rainy afternoons.
I made some videos while I was there. those vids somehow ended in disaster...:) (noone died). I managed to get some other much better footage uncut and full of crazy faces. They are posted here, for your enjoyment.
Peace
I made some videos while I was there. those vids somehow ended in disaster...:) (noone died). I managed to get some other much better footage uncut and full of crazy faces. They are posted here, for your enjoyment.
Peace
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Techy things
So, I'm sick for the week. I pulled something in my back that hurts like fuck everytime I take a step...I feel like an invalid.
I went to see an orthopaed about it...who in turn gave me one of the most painful experiances of my life. It was worth it tho...two days later, im feeling alot better.
So techy stuff;
I got the okay from the IHK for my Final project. "the installation and migration of an OTRS system."
This means I can get started.
I will be using a virtual box for this, running centos5.3 i386, standered LAMP pack with the installation and migration being the easy part. What you do it install the same version of the otrs system on your target box, and migrate the databases with pipe...well export first. then you just run the upgrade scripts. The database structure does not chage during minor releases, so 2.0.1 is the same structure as 2.0.5. The upgrade process happens when upgrading from say 2.0 to 3.0 and so on. Its a real easy project, and is not hard at all, the documentation will tougher :D tho the presentation infront of the designated jury will either be a breeze or....a disaster.
My experiance tho is that when I get a chace to talk someones ear off...it seems to come naturally. Just keep going till the your time is up, and leave little or no time for questions. This tactic works well hand has gotten me A+'s before...let see how it works this time.
In other news, Im working on my communication skills. backtraking: japanese culture (where I grew up) states; one must never let on the point of conflict during conversation. That means, we tend to beat around the bush, and take people on longwinded, and seemingly unstructured mental walks, never really getting to th point.... heh.
Seeing as Im running into a massive roadblock on a specific software project that I am working on, that is just cycling into oblivion...I feel I really need to get this ironed out. See being a system intigrator, I feel as if my skills dont match up for developing. I have written the odd PHP based application with database connectivity. But I dont feel as if this stuff can be marketed. Its kinda "as is" software.
But thats besides the point, I dont want to be held financially responsible for a system that I am doing for free. And I need to say that without beating around the bush. The problem really is (in german law) everything you sell/buy has to be warrentied for at lest 2 years. You as the seller will have either replace it or fix it (you may charge hours). And the software Im working on, I cant guarantee, as Im just too new to the game to know what to look for. Also did I mention Im writing the software ....for free?
Well, now its out there. . . the die is cast (melodramatic)
Now to write some software.
Cheers
I went to see an orthopaed about it...who in turn gave me one of the most painful experiances of my life. It was worth it tho...two days later, im feeling alot better.
So techy stuff;
I got the okay from the IHK for my Final project. "the installation and migration of an OTRS system."
This means I can get started.
I will be using a virtual box for this, running centos5.3 i386, standered LAMP pack with the installation and migration being the easy part. What you do it install the same version of the otrs system on your target box, and migrate the databases with pipe...well export first. then you just run the upgrade scripts. The database structure does not chage during minor releases, so 2.0.1 is the same structure as 2.0.5. The upgrade process happens when upgrading from say 2.0 to 3.0 and so on. Its a real easy project, and is not hard at all, the documentation will tougher :D tho the presentation infront of the designated jury will either be a breeze or....a disaster.
My experiance tho is that when I get a chace to talk someones ear off...it seems to come naturally. Just keep going till the your time is up, and leave little or no time for questions. This tactic works well hand has gotten me A+'s before...let see how it works this time.
In other news, Im working on my communication skills. backtraking: japanese culture (where I grew up) states; one must never let on the point of conflict during conversation. That means, we tend to beat around the bush, and take people on longwinded, and seemingly unstructured mental walks, never really getting to th point.... heh.
Seeing as Im running into a massive roadblock on a specific software project that I am working on, that is just cycling into oblivion...I feel I really need to get this ironed out. See being a system intigrator, I feel as if my skills dont match up for developing. I have written the odd PHP based application with database connectivity. But I dont feel as if this stuff can be marketed. Its kinda "as is" software.
But thats besides the point, I dont want to be held financially responsible for a system that I am doing for free. And I need to say that without beating around the bush. The problem really is (in german law) everything you sell/buy has to be warrentied for at lest 2 years. You as the seller will have either replace it or fix it (you may charge hours). And the software Im working on, I cant guarantee, as Im just too new to the game to know what to look for. Also did I mention Im writing the software ....for free?
Well, now its out there. . . the die is cast (melodramatic)
Now to write some software.
Cheers
Friday, March 11, 2011
nintendo 3d
I was at the cinema, watching the new New york heart-throb movie "The Adjustment Bureau" with Mat daemon. I thought it to be a bit cliche, a tad modernistic, with a subtle taste of theological sediment. but fun none the less.
there were nintentdo hawkers outside, showing off the new 3d nintendo...very simplistic. the whole 3d pictures from when I was a kid come to mind....the screen ofsets the image to corispond with the prismatic screen. I mean, inovative, but nothing new.
seeing as the graphics on these things are just so pixcelated, you can pull it off, but im not really a gamer or a console fan so .... it was a shot in the barrel for them...:)
there were nintentdo hawkers outside, showing off the new 3d nintendo...very simplistic. the whole 3d pictures from when I was a kid come to mind....the screen ofsets the image to corispond with the prismatic screen. I mean, inovative, but nothing new.
seeing as the graphics on these things are just so pixcelated, you can pull it off, but im not really a gamer or a console fan so .... it was a shot in the barrel for them...:)
No compiling today...
I made sushi for the office today, and spoke with some colleges about the earthquake / tsunami in Japan. I hadn't heard about it till they told me, so it came as a bit of a shock. I found it interesting to hear how people view these kinds of disasters from Europe...where this kinda stuff never happens.
---EDIT---
My relatives a associates are doing well, according to my dad, noone they know of has been affected by this disaster.
I don't really know what happened... haven't looked into it just yet, let me multi-task to find out what happened.
magnitude 8.7/8.8/9.0
tsunami...in Sendai.
Tokyo subways and highways have been closed down.
After three min of Google foo...this situation seems to be an apocalypse for japan.
The tsunami seems to to have done quite some damage, but Tokyo seems to be okay. Fear of the after shock is what is probably making people leave the city.
The tsunami seems to to have done quite some damage, but Tokyo seems to be okay. Fear of the after shock is what is probably making people leave the city.
I still need to call my family there to make sure everything is okay.
---EDIT---
My relatives a associates are doing well, according to my dad, noone they know of has been affected by this disaster.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Second Run
I had to reboot my VM. This time I'm going to run as root for the build process.
In step 4.4, I set the variables for my ~./bash_profile. since I have not yet chrooted, this means the profile will be that of the live system. Its disconcerting to say the least....that the profile is so sparse.
---EDIT---
On second thought, I will have to run as the lfs user defined in step 4.3, otherwise I cant write the bash_profile I will need.
While Running a recursive chown on the $LFS directory...I realize how friggin` huge libjava is. The recursive chown (Never EVER EVER EVER do this on a productive system) serves the purpose of kinda making a secondary root user. Im sure I actually should have just added the lfs group to root...the die is cast.
In step 4.4, I set the variables for my ~./bash_profile. since I have not yet chrooted, this means the profile will be that of the live system. Its disconcerting to say the least....that the profile is so sparse.
---EDIT---
On second thought, I will have to run as the lfs user defined in step 4.3, otherwise I cant write the bash_profile I will need.
While Running a recursive chown on the $LFS directory...I realize how friggin` huge libjava is. The recursive chown (Never EVER EVER EVER do this on a productive system) serves the purpose of kinda making a secondary root user. Im sure I actually should have just added the lfs group to root...the die is cast.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
sum of the day
The configure command does alot...it builds the makefile. Since the system is sparse and has nothing installed, the makefile is also just as empty.
An interesting thought, is that you can kinda manually read out the makefile to figure out what are "must haves" for your compilation. Better yet you can google how to set the options.
I still have yet to figure out what is wrong with my make, but a few suggestions have been garnered for future use.
An interesting thought, is that you can kinda manually read out the makefile to figure out what are "must haves" for your compilation. Better yet you can google how to set the options.
I still have yet to figure out what is wrong with my make, but a few suggestions have been garnered for future use.
Maybe Im just not concentrating...
Building LFS is tougher then I thought.
"make" clean runs a fresh make... make check / make install errors: something missing in/cant find libiberty.*.
Yep, make cant find libiberty because it does yet not exist...or so I would assume....right?....no...
Hmmmm
Well the "detailed" section of this particular chapter, shows me how I can define an alternative to libiberty with sed.
The real weird thing is...the file I would replace with said "sed", apparently exists and resides in it source package... successfully built by GCC.
okay now I'm stumped.
The detailed page...is something out of the jhalfs script...googlefoo got me that far.
Wait a second, is this page telling me that there is an installer script for this... where I can just use my bash feelers to readout the cheat sheet?
My elation was quickly depleted as after getting the latest ALFS...I found it was for advanced users, and not to be a compact version of the LFS book...all references to $_anything variables would have to be set before it could be used.
Alternative solution finding skills are apparently not very useful when it comes to LFS.
--EDIT--
This page helped me for some reason...and some other quote in someones sig "Learning is the progressive realization of ignorance".
Really really simple solution....!file path! for the sed command.
"make" clean runs a fresh make... make check / make install errors: something missing in/cant find libiberty.*.
Yep, make cant find libiberty because it does yet not exist...or so I would assume....right?....no...
Hmmmm
Well the "detailed" section of this particular chapter, shows me how I can define an alternative to libiberty with sed.
The real weird thing is...the file I would replace with said "sed", apparently exists and resides in it source package... successfully built by GCC.
okay now I'm stumped.
The detailed page...is something out of the jhalfs script...googlefoo got me that far.
Wait a second, is this page telling me that there is an installer script for this... where I can just use my bash feelers to readout the cheat sheet?
My elation was quickly depleted as after getting the latest ALFS...I found it was for advanced users, and not to be a compact version of the LFS book...all references to $_anything variables would have to be set before it could be used.
Alternative solution finding skills are apparently not very useful when it comes to LFS.
--EDIT--
This page helped me for some reason...and some other quote in someones sig "Learning is the progressive realization of ignorance".
Really really simple solution....!file path! for the sed command.
iomega Storcenter ix2- 200
This nas is an interesting device. I recently got myself one...I wanted a buffalo nas but the shop I happened to go to just didnt have one.
This device runs a Linux OS, has a 1ghz processor and 256mb ram, 2 single TB drives, a usb port, and a gigabit lan port.
Its hackable, you can get at the system either by dumping the configuration file thru its web interface, or by mounting both drives as a Raid 0.
The web interface spits out a tar.gz of a dump it will create, when asked for.
iomega gives you the firmware update, or the source of the system if you register on their support page. The update "firmware" is assumably the same as a dump of the / partition without /media. the dump contains a "config" folder where sshd haas been disabled, the uncommenting of a few lines in sshd_config is easy enough.
I repackaged as a tar.gz, the update html page however dosnt want to accept my update...."unrecognised package". The firmware update is packaged as a .tgz compressed file....I cant seem to open it just yet.
Gunzip dosnt recognize the zip format, and renaming to tar.gz file dosnt do the trick either.
What have I learned from this?
I would like to assume that this device runs a slackware variant. The filesystem has configs for apt. It is capable of handling bluetooth.
Next steps?
Im going to get the source code for this device, tho I'm at a loss for words when trying to imagine how I will compile the source, as this device (theoretically) can handle a console port, but I dont feel like soldering onto the mainboard just yet, and have no real way of accessing the command line other then by mounting the raid on a linux device...and physically editing the system there.
more on this later
--EDIT--
I hadn't thought about cross compiling for an ARM processor...not now tho, I will have to make due with just manually mounting the raid and editing there...:(
while I'm at it tho, I may make some modifications to the update options/packaging system...we'll see.
This device runs a Linux OS, has a 1ghz processor and 256mb ram, 2 single TB drives, a usb port, and a gigabit lan port.
Its hackable, you can get at the system either by dumping the configuration file thru its web interface, or by mounting both drives as a Raid 0.
The web interface spits out a tar.gz of a dump it will create, when asked for.
iomega gives you the firmware update, or the source of the system if you register on their support page. The update "firmware" is assumably the same as a dump of the / partition without /media. the dump contains a "config" folder where sshd haas been disabled, the uncommenting of a few lines in sshd_config is easy enough.
I repackaged as a tar.gz, the update html page however dosnt want to accept my update...."unrecognised package". The firmware update is packaged as a .tgz compressed file....I cant seem to open it just yet.
Gunzip dosnt recognize the zip format, and renaming to tar.gz file dosnt do the trick either.
What have I learned from this?
I would like to assume that this device runs a slackware variant. The filesystem has configs for apt. It is capable of handling bluetooth.
Next steps?
Im going to get the source code for this device, tho I'm at a loss for words when trying to imagine how I will compile the source, as this device (theoretically) can handle a console port, but I dont feel like soldering onto the mainboard just yet, and have no real way of accessing the command line other then by mounting the raid on a linux device...and physically editing the system there.
--EDIT--
I hadn't thought about cross compiling for an ARM processor...not now tho, I will have to make due with just manually mounting the raid and editing there...:(
while I'm at it tho, I may make some modifications to the update options/packaging system...we'll see.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
LFS First steps
The first few steps in LFS involve creating a build environment, getting the sources, writing your own bash profile etc.
sourcing the first packages...went surprisingly well. Then GCC came along and ruined it all.
I supposed the purpose of the LFS book is to make you think about what your actually doing and not just find a way to get to your goal...so, the book doesn't tell you much about different library's that GCC needs to build (gmp, mpfr/mpc).
Its obvious enough to know that they are needed, as they are included in the build option for gcc. There is however no reference that these packages need to be built first.
So I build the packages, and of course...GMP starts muttering about failed tests... I'm assuming it has something to do with the environment, but seeing as most other instances of this issue happens from LFS'ing from a running dist of say Ubuntu, and I'm running from a LFS CD, I cant think that this issue happens as a result of the env. maybe it really is just a fail on the side of LFS.
---EDIT---
so yes...I was wrong...
when compiling gcc, put mpc, mpcf , gmp , as freshly unpacked tar balls into the gcc source directory, move to your build directory, remove all references in build options to the above mentioned packages and the source will compile like nothing you've seen before.
run make, make check, make install and we have liftoff...
now to compile the kernel headers
LFS
LFS is a distro most people would bash me about building. It takes time and effort, alot of time and effort. its mostly compile time so, I dont really have a problem with that.
Im going to try and post some of my experience here.
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