Old kernels and new compilers

Old kernels and new compilers

Posted Aug 24, 2006 16:24 UTC (Thu) by landley (guest, #6789)
In reply to: Old kernels and new compilers by eru
Parent article: Old kernels and new compilers

The BusyBox website has a Red Hat 9 image we test-build with under QEMU.
(It also has a patch to build qemu under gcc 4.x if you want to do it
from source.)

Once you've got qemu installed, it's as simple as:

wget http://busybox.net/downloads/qemu/rh-9-shrike.img.bz2
bunzip2 rh-9-shrike.img.bz2
qemu rh-9-shrike.img

And voila, it pops up a new window with RH9 running in it.

Login as either user "busybox" or as root, password "busybox" in both
cases. If you prefer a gui to text mode, I think you can run "startx".
The emulated system should have an emulated (masqueraded) network
connection, so you can scp files in and out. Grab your source, build it,
tar it up, and scp the result back out.

Rob

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