On Tuesday 14 February 2006 20:11, Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: WRT54G Support?': > * Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-14 14:05]: > > Nice, so the kernel and package support is there, good. That's the > > main thing I was concerned with. My specs are almost identical, I > > Flash flashout is probably different. That's hard-coded so far and > needs some code to auto-detect it.
Since I don't know what this means, it's clear I need to learn a bit more about mips. I'll see if I can't pick up that "See MIPS Run" book you mentioned in another message -- is there any source code you can recommend as particularly enlightening? > > I'm not so concerned with the storage issue. My "grand design" > > includes having the image on flash pivot_root onto nfs > > Ugh. Why don't you just get a device which has USB, such as the > WGT634U or the Asus WL-500g? I don't really *need* an upgrade, and this is a device that I've had for a number of years already. Just switching to OpenWRT has made it perform better under heavy load. > > I know debian-installer isn't going to be able to do this > > automatically, > > Actually, if you just want to run Debian via NFS, it's pretty trivial. > Simply build a kernel with the BCM patches applied, build in NFS > root support and a proper kernel cmdline and flash it... That's what I'm looking at right now, but it's a little harder than that because the nfs server will actually depend on the wrt to assign it an IP address. 'course maybe that's just bad network design. :P > > 1a) Configure the vlans (settings from nvram) > > Setting stuff from nvram isn't really the way Debian works. Yeah, that's fine, I was only going to use that as a way to keep the Squashfs image small. I guess there's really no need for that, and /etc (or whatever) on the readonly image would be fine, although then I'd have to reflash the system to change the boot behavior. :/ > Yeah, I think you can do all of that with a kernel with the BCM > patches plus a custom initramfs that you develop that does all of this > stuff. Well, I had problems with debootstrap, too, so I couldn't get a debian system that was suitable to chroot into. If I reproduce the errors, I assume I can get some troubleshooters to help me through it on this list, right? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
