Subj : Beaver de Pesky!
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Tue Jul 25 2017 21:45:36

Hey Nicholas!

 NB> Easy peazy!

Only if you have a networked dhcp server to the outside world which I don't.  I 
have to hack the wired networking scheme for ArchLinuxARM-rpi-3-latest prior to 
it's first boot to make the 'Easy peazy!' stuff work.  I thought I could take 
care of all that post install but apparently I am missing something.  Both my 
internetted machines are static IP addresses and the connection hardware 
doesn't do dhcpcd or anything like it.  I have to take care of it at my end ... 
don't hold your breath.  ;-)

 NB> You're going to make this a lot harder than it really is, aren't
 NB> you?

I haven't decided yet.  What I might do is use ArchLinuxARM-rpi-3-latest to 
build the first stage3 enviroment seeing it is so close to that given the 64 
bit capabilities and it's gcc seems to think it is aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu 
which is what the stage2 enviroment slackwarearm managed to build.  Using 
archlinux does save a few steps.

 NB> I spent 10+ years compiling everything with Gentoo

0 years with gentoo.  At least a decade with slackware though.  After that it 
more or less became a bastardized version of many different - and yet the same 
- sources in order to maintain a non-GUI enviroment, or at least the base 
system(s) never needed a GUI.  Everytime I've bothered installing xorg and 
friends I never use it beyond testing that it does indeed work ... if I didn't 
screw it up that is.

Life is good,
Maurice

.... Don't cry for me I have vi.
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