The ACM@UIUC Operating System Development Environment

Brian Swetland has graciously installed the GNU development tools on the ACM cluster, configured to cross-compile to the i386 in ELF format. Do not use spam for development, it is very slow. Instead use AIX sleepless where they are under /develop/xdev/bin, with names like gcc386, g++386, ld386, and as386; or even faster, use sun wilbur where they are under /extra/sigops/xdev386. Note also that the netboot and bootmaker utilities are also installed in thoose respective locations.

Thanks to Brian Swetland and Douglas Armstrong, ACM has two bare bones i386 PCs in the office for use as test beds for operating system development and we hope to get a sun possibly soon. maggie.acm.uiuc.edu has 8MB of RAM, VGA, a hard drive, and a network card. This machine has DOS, a DOS NFS client called XFS v1.91, and the boot loader. The ACM cluster conveniently exports its /scratch directory to drive G on this machine. This machine can also be booted using a boot disk to use the advanced netboot system and RARP it's IP. The other machine, called krusty.acm.uiuc.edu has no hard drive or floppy hooked up; instead it uses the boot rom system and boot directly from the network (NE2000) card ready to recieve the operating system of your choice.