On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 2:52 PM, stanley garvey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Feb 3, 2013 19:33 "stanley garvey" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Feb 3, 2013 18:51 "Andrei B." <[email protected]> wrote: > > My experience so far , as I also have the model B (512ram) is like this: > > - raspbian or weezy works fine. Note that they were from october 2012, > after the launch of the mode B. > > Dave's image (so far) for slackware is dated august 2012. > > Using Dave's image and start.elf from the raspbian image, I managed to > start the installer (set for only 128MB ram) and do a complete installation, > on my 16G image. However, I couldn't start the system after installation, > with the installed kernel, following all of Dave's instructions. > > I'm still researching with Stanley's site. I'll probably bring up my own > site, to document these experiences. > I think is super cool that Slackware exists as full distro, just like the > x86 version, for ARM. > > I still have to try (tomorrow, maybe) Stanley's already installed images. > > > > --- On Sun, 2/3/13, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ARMedslack] Install Slackware on a new Raspberry Pi > To: "Philippe Tjon-A-Hen" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, February 3, 2013, 10:01 AM > > Philippe Tjon-A-Hen wrote: > > Found this site yet ? http://rpi.fatdog.eu/?p=home > > Yes I have already been there, thanks for the suggestion. > > My problem is that I cannot start the installer (rainbow screen). > > Is there anything particular at this site that I should be paying more > attention to? > > -Stathis > > > Op 3 feb. 2013 03:12 schreef <[email protected]> het volgende: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> first of all, thanks to everyone here for the wonderful work. Keep it > >> up! > >> > >> Just got my Pi (model B, 512MB) and tried the raspian-wheezy > >> (2012-12-16) > >> first and it works fine. > >> > >> Followed instructions from Dave's Collective > >> (http://www.daves-collective.co.uk/raspi/installing.shtml) and prepared > >> two SD cards, a 8GB and a 32GB. > >> > >> Unfortunately, with either of the cards, all I get is the rainbow > >> screen. > >> > >> How does one proceed from that? > >> > >> -Stathis > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> ARMedslack mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack > >> > > > > Hi, please use the 16 GB image, it is cleaner and has an issue with > networking fixed. You can use the 8GB image but read issues and workarounds > on my site first! > The 16GB image has a prettier boot partition and include the full > config.txt file from elinux with every config parm you can think of. > Both images are based upon the work of David Spencer but contain no tweeks > or optimizations. > You can use the image as an installer by uncommenting these lines in > config.txt: > > ## ramfsfile (string) > ## ramfs file to load > ## > #ramfsfile="intrd-versatile.img" <--uncomment (line 493) > > ## ramfsaddr > ## Address to load ramfs file at > ## > #ramfsaddr=0xa00000 <--uncomment (line 498) > > If you chose to reinstall this way be mindful that you will lose the > kernel modules and source, so move them some place safe first. > The installation steps are the same as Davids, however no extra packages > exist. > I would like to write an installer but my partner says I spend to much > time on this already, plus I've been working 7 days a week :( > You can also find a bunch of natively rebuilt packages at > ftp.stanleygarvey.co.uk > most of series a has been rebuilt all of series xfce and more, take a > look. > If you wish to use these packages you can do so by using the command : > upgradepkg --reinstall somepackage-*arm*tgz > > I hope that helps, > comments to slackberry(at)stanleygarvey.com > Best regards > Stanley. > P.S you will need to comment out the lines you uncommented above in the > config.txt or you will reboot back into an install, I shouldn't need to tell > you that, but just to be clear. > > > _______________________________________________ > ARMedslack mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack >
Hello! Stanley you're saying to boot into a normal Slackware screen as opposed to the installer based ramdisk I need to uncomment those lines that're commented out? I had an inspired guess regarding that, but, ah, never had a chance to try it. ----- Gregg C Levine [email protected] "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." _______________________________________________ ARMedslack mailing list [email protected] http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
