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Unfortunately, I have looked EVERYWHERE for a ready-to-boot disc juggler or nero image for DCLinux. I tried the boob! website, but the downloads server has been down forever and I really want to get Linux on my dreamcast without going through a lot of fuss with "compiling" my image. Please note that I use MS Windows on the PC that I intend to burn the image on. Unfortunately, the instructions on burning the image are geared towards linux users. WHAT MADNESS! Also, why can't I find the ready-made image anywhere (including the m17n.org website which has shut down recently)? Can somebody upload the cdi to RapidShare or MegaUpload so I can nab it and be in Linux heaven on the Dreamcast? Thank you for your help!
EDIT (05/08/2007): I tried bittorrent too. No dice! I also looked m17n.org up on the Internet Archive and I thought I hit the jackpot... but the download wasn't working.
EDIT 2 (05/08/2007): The file I am looking for is dclinux.cdi and it is roughly 300 MBs or so in size. If anyone has access to the file, please upload it to RapidShare or MegaUpload and post a link to the download!
- I checked my backups as I remember having downloaded a Linux distribution a long time ago, but it turns out the .zip archive hasn't finished downloading... >_<
Someone to help us out so we could host a decent DCLinux / LinuxDC distribution at DCEvolution.net ?
I'm pretty sure that file is really old. And I mean really old even when this scene was still really alive and going. There have been new and much better versions since then.
I vaguely recall running X on it at one point, but practically nothing interesting could be run because of the limited RAM.
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|darc| wrote:I'm pretty sure that file is really old. And I mean really old even when this scene was still really alive and going. There have been new and much better versions since then.
Ye Olde Dreamcast Files.
I think there were at least two revisions after this ?. Still, better than nothing I guess.
|darc| wrote:I'm pretty sure that file is really old. And I mean really old even when this scene was still really alive and going. There have been new and much better versions since then.
Hm, yeah that's likely and I doubt we should host it at DCEvo. So, if anyone has a new version we would be happy to host that.
Christuserloeser wrote:Anyone got any idea what this is exactly: viewtopic.php?p=902007#p902007 - It's called 'Stage 3' I think.
Gentoo does three "stage" releases, referring to where at in the compilation process you start. Stage 1 represents compiling the most from scratch, stage 2 has some stuff precompiled, and stage 3 has nearly everything precompiled. From that post, it seems like you can download the sh4 tarball from Gentoo's site and make a selfboot with it.