[Angstrom-devel] AM1808

[Gary Thomas]

On 07/19/2011 05:22 AM, Michael Schnell wrote:
> On 07/19/2011 12:19 PM, David Abdurachmanov wrote:
>> For installing additional packages I would suggest you building it yourself and installing on machine: opkg install<package_name.ipk>
> opkg did load the .ipg files, but when trying to install them I get:
>
> root at da850-omapl138-evm:~# ls -l ppp*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1118 May 15 07:59 ppp-dialin_0.1-r7.6_all.ipk
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 146258 May 15 07:59 ppp_2.4.3-r9.6_armv5te.ipk
> root at da850-omapl138-evm:~# opkg install ppp_2.4.3-r9.6_armv5te.ipk
> Collected errors:
> * gz_open: fork: Cannot allocate memory.
> * pkg_init_from_file: Failed to extract control file from ppp_2.4.3-r9.6_armv5te.ipk.
>
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>> OpenEmbedded (OE) metadata is used for cross-compiling packages and building kernel, u-boot, x-load, rootfs images. Now they have changes directory structure, to oe-core,
>> meta-oe, and of course there is Angstrom meta layer. There should some instructions how to combine every layer and setup Bitbake to build up-to-date Angstrom images and packages.
> As there is nothing relevant on this device, I could start with a completely new installation from the sources. But right now I did not look for instructions on how to do this.
>> As I remember all modules are build-in into kernel, that's why there is no external ones. In other words, kernel doesn't depend on rootfs image (I think).
> I see.
>> You can easily change kernel without changing any files on rootfs and vice versa.
> Because of the said memory problem, I suppose I can't unpack a Kernel package....

What kind of "disk" space do you have available?  You might be able to add a
swap file to extend your 32MB of RAM.

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