Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-07-12 Thread stanley garvey
On Jul 11, 2012 23:43 Doug Peterson galen...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you. I am rsyncing this now. Will give it a try. -Doug On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 6:42 PM, stanley garvey stan...@stanleygarvey.com wrote: I have an 8gb img Get it via: rsync -avz --delete

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-07-11 Thread Doug Peterson
Hi all, I just wanted to say thank you for all the reply's I received. I also want to apologies for not replying. The same day I first posted my questions about ArmedSlack on the Raspberry Pi, a loved one ended up in the hospital with ARDS. I have not had much time to catch up on things like

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-07-11 Thread Doug Peterson
Thank you. I am rsyncing this now. Will give it a try. -Doug On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 6:42 PM, stanley garvey stan...@stanleygarvey.com wrote: On Jun 20, 2012 09:07 Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: I have an 8gb img Get it via: rsync -avz --delete

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-06-21 Thread Davide
But tbh I'm not sure whether I want to support this device officially (in-tree) because the RPi doesn't support initrds which means potentially a big change to how I build the kernels and modules packages; In my experiments with ARMedSlack on a Seagate DockStar, I remember using a mkboot

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-06-21 Thread Rick Miles
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 07:45 +0100, Davide wrote: I've no idea whether the installer works directly on that platform, but you can get the miniroot working as long as you have a working kernel for the hardware. Look at the bottomb section in the supported platforms ... there is a paragraph on

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-06-21 Thread Davide
I've no idea whether the installer works directly on that platform, but you can get the miniroot working as long as you have a working kernel for the hardware. Look at the bottomb section in the supported platforms ... there is a paragraph on unofficially supported platforms. Look at them

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-06-21 Thread Rick Miles
On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 08:20 +0100, Davide wrote: I've no idea whether the installer works directly on that platform, but you can get the miniroot working as long as you have a working kernel for the hardware. Look at the bottomb section in the supported platforms ... there is a

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-06-20 Thread Davide
armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Inviato: Mercoledì 20 Giugno 2012 1:24 Oggetto: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi Hello all. My name is Doug Peterson.  I am a long time Slackware user. I received my Raspberry Pi this last week and am now working on getting

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-06-20 Thread Stuart Winter
I've no idea whether the installer works directly on that platform, but you can get the miniroot working as long as you have a working kernel for the hardware. Look at the bottomb section in the supported platforms ... there is a paragraph on unofficially supported platforms. Look at them

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-06-20 Thread Tyler T
But tbh I'm not sure whether I want to support this device officially (in-tree) because the RPi doesn't support initrds which means potentially a big change to how I build the kernels and modules packages; In my experiments with ARMedSlack on a Seagate DockStar, I remember using a mkboot

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-06-20 Thread stanley garvey
On Jun 20, 2012 09:07 Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: I have an 8gb img Get it via: rsync -avz --delete rsync.stanleygarvey.co.uk::SlackBerry/Image . This is the whole armed slack for an 8 GB sd sandisk card sans KDE. Sorry it's not zipped, it is very late. instructions: dd bs=1M