On Monday 12 February 2007 15:08, David Fokkema wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 15:53 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 03:51:39PM +0100, David Fokkema wrote: > > > Regarding floating point operations in ImageMagick / NetPBM there > > > were suggestions to try out the EABI port. Right now, that seems a > > > bit painful. > > > > Why is that? > > Excuse the length of this mail. > > Please see this as a comment from a somewhat knowledgeable user without > (unfortunately) loads of free time (due to the fact that I have a > daughter not quite a month old, ;-) > > I was looking forward to JRDS (just run debian stable) in a few weeks > (maybe months :-/ ). Right now, I have a firewall, mail, several > domains with gallery1, gallery2 and wordpress running on a Linksys > NSLU2. Running that on a 266 Mhz with 32 Mb was proving to be quite a > challenge. But trimming down memory usage and compiling eAccelerator > made it all work. Almost. Resizing photo's proved to be a problem. > > Right now, the prospect of running an experimental port of unstable > which might not have all the packages I need (I didn't check...) is > somewhat daunting, certainly opposed to (if I can figure out how) just > recompiling a few packages. > > I'm untarring the armel chroot right now, just to check it out. Maybe I > will take the plunge...
I'm probably in the same boat: I've got one Slug (NSLU2) running Unslung which is a bit of a nightmare due to the way it works (with / in a ramdisk and then another root being mounted over it or something nasty like that) such as two versions of cron running (or not) at the same time, etc. Loaded a second Slug with the Debian Arm port (after a bit of faff getting the thing to boot the installer image). Having updated the kernel to the open-source netowrk driver has improved it no end. Now there is an EABI port which handles FPU stuff much better (as I understand it) but isn't a complete port yet. Is the EABI port the better option for a Slug which lacks a FPU? Is the arm-el port the same as the EABI port or is that different again? It looked like there were about three different arm ports and I couldn't really work out which was best for me! Is it possible to dist-upgrade from debian-arm to the EABI port or is it a complete reinstall? If so, is it a "by hand" install or is there an installer image for it? If this is "the best" option for a Slug, I'm happy to give it a go on one of my Slugs (once I've checked that the packages need are available!). Cheers, Laz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
