PSPSDK in Linux image

Pihas · Post by **Pihas** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:35 am

I have found In ZX81 website http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/in ... Users.html here is showing disk-ubuntu-psp Linux Ubuntu Disk image file with installed PSPSDK. I tried to download it 2 times. My internet maxim speed is 128 kb/s firstly it is downloading at 20kb/s then 100kb/s after about an hour slow down to 15 kb/s and after 6 hours it jus stop downloading :/ (~70%) wtf...??? Is any more mirros any torrent? in emule or somewhrere not from dl.free.fr becouse if i press stop or pause it resets becouse start downloading hmtl file (12kb...) ...

Torch · Post by **Torch** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:17 am

Thats really old by now. Its better you use install the PSPSDK in cygwin.
After that use a windows IDE like DevC++
http://ifile.it/ma2ut1p/pspsdk_with_dev_c__.php_.mht

Pihas · Post by **Pihas** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:22 am

Thx i will try but i want to install linux to pc (Normal bootable... not with virtual box) and i want ready img linux file with sdk or jus advice what version ubuntu or xubuntu i have to install to be able install Tool Chain and PSP Sdk witout any errors...

Torch · Post by **Torch** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:21 am

LOL you can't install a virtual machine image to you actual harddisk. Its configured for different hardware.

Pihas · Post by **Pihas** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 3:38 pm

Ok now i know :/

J.F. · Post by **J.F.** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:29 pm

Actually, with linux you CAN as long as the kernel wasn't recompiled specifically for the particular configuration. At most you'd have to change the X conf script for the video (although if it's set for VESA, you don't even have to do that). It's one of linux's better features - running on virtually anything regardless of what it was installed on. That allows you to install on one computer and move the drive to another and still work.

Torch · Post by **Torch** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 5:23 pm

Oh thats cool. But in any case theres no tools to extract files from the VirtualBox images, let alone extract the boot track and other information to write to another disk.

J.F. · Post by **J.F.** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 6:23 pm

I suppose you COULD run the virtual machine and use dd to copy the boot volume to a real partition. Does VirtualBox allow you to access other partitions?

Torch · Post by **Torch** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:13 pm

No it doesn't let you mount a physical partition. The only official way to access files on the host machine is to create a virtual shared folder that points to a folder on the host. The virtual share is a SAMBA share, so it can be accessed natively in Windows and Linux.

You CAN get direct disk access though using 3rd party tools like the Ghost client and connecting to the server on the host. Since he needs to dump the only active partition from ZX81's image, he would probably need to mount another disk with Ghost installation as the primary disk and mount the Linux image as the secondary disk.

And VirtualBox images aren't really compatible between different machines running VirtualBox either, at least not for a Windows installation. The virtual machine sees the same CPU and some other motherboard components as the host machine.

jsharrad · Post by **jsharrad** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 4:20 am

Vmware lets you access physical drives / partitions though. I installed vista to my hard drive that way once. ;)

J.F. · Post by **J.F.** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:56 am

Sounds like more work than it's worth. :) Probably easier to just do a normal linux install, then the normal toolchain setup.

Pihas · Post by **Pihas** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 5:17 pm

What version for egzample i need of xubuntu to install toolchain without any big problems becouse i have installed it on ubuntu 8.10 and i had a lot errors fixed all but, can't run toolchain :/

J.F. · Post by **J.F.** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:00 am

It's easier to use 8.04 instead of 8.10. You shouldn't have to make any changes to get the toolchain to compile, and I've yet to see any problem with the programs made with it.