linux on a windows box

[Nick Stockton]

Well first of all you said that your wanting to compile rockbox more quickly 
than it's able to be compiled in cygwin.
Just so you know new rockbox builds for all the supported platforms are 
generated every time the source is modified.
http://build.rockbox.org/
Now if your still wanting to run a copy of gnu/Linux, I think the best thing 
would be to run a full copy on another partition, unless you have a spare 
USB hard drive you don't mind using.
If you do have a spare USB hard drive then running the grml live cd and 
connecting the USB hard disk might be best for your purpose.
I've downloaded the rockbox source so I could make my own voice file for my 
player and it takes forever.
There are so many small files that even with a fast internet connection it 
drags along and so, unless you have a place to store the source you've 
downloaded, you will have to pull the complete source from svn every time 
you want to update, instead of doing a "svn update" command.
Now as far as running gnu/Linux under CoLinux goes I've tried it, and it's 
definantley not nearly as fast as a gnu/Linux distro running natively on a 
hard drive.
I wasn't able to get speakup working in it, I had to use jaws to read the 
screen and it wasn't as accessible as Cygwin's accessibility using jaws.
I'm not sure how well the two compare as far as speed of compiling goes but 
I doubt that CoLinux is much faster than Cygwin if at all.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "alex wallis" <alexwallis646 at googlemail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: linux on a windows box


> Hi. I don't no about booting from USB devices, but how would that help?
> So does it look like using vmware might be the only option I have?
> I considered microsoft virtual pc, but the problem with that is i'd need 
> xp
> pro to run it.
> My problem is I don't have resources to run vmware, and i'm really wanting
> the linux setup, because I use an OS on my mp3 player called rockbox, and 
> at
> the moment i use cygwin to compile it which is very slow. If i could find 
> a
> solution that was very fast and didn't take up loads of resources I would
> like to be a machine they use to do there builds each time the project 
> gets
> upgraded.
> But at the moment so far as I can see, the only way I can do it and at the
> same time still have access to windows would be to use vmware which is a
> serious resource muncher. And I just couldn't do it. I thought colinux
> looked a good option, so if anyone has any other ideas that are less
> resource intensive than vmware i'd be interested.
> Thanks for your help.
> Alex.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Georgina" <gena at mga.demon.co.uk>
> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'"
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 10:46 PM
> Subject: RE: linux on a windows box
>
>
>>
>> I was wondering has anyone had experience with using this, and getting
>> linux
>>
>> setup using it and obviously running a screen reader?
>>
>> I'd not heard of this project but having read the FAQ, it would be very
>> difficult to get something working.  There's no mention of serial devices
>> which are likely to be virtual within the colinux environment.  So this
>> would not allow speakup's hardware synth support.  As for the software
>> synth
>> and for speakup or orca, I'm not sure owing to the difficulties mentioned
>> of
>> having to use a sound server which we already do for software speech.
>> Then
>> there's the device names, not only would you need to learn the linux 
>> names
>> of your hard disk, you'd also need to learn the colinux virtual naming
>> system.  It certainly doesn't sound like something a newbie should even
>> begin to consider.
>>
>> I must admit, I'm interested in this area as I'm setting up a business
>> catering for this type of situation.  So I hope that someone who doesn't
>> have a vested interest proffer an opinion.
>>
>> But how about using a external hard disk or USB pen?  Can you investigate
>> whether your laptop can boot from USB devices?
>>
>> Gena
>> Ready2GoLinux www.ready2golinux.com
>>
>>
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