On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 02:13:18PM +0000, Code Blue wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 03:02:49PM +0100, Michael Stevens wrote: > > > I don't know the official status but I'm running Debian testing on my > > fuloong. Most things seem to work, i was able to do a USB install. I > > didn't find any good instructions for the install and I was unable to > > get grub to work, so I'm currently putting up with very slow pmon boots. > > I would be interested in keeping PMON and not using Grub since it boots > OpenBSD fine and I don't try to fix what ain't broke! I wonder if I have a > more recent PMON version than you are running. I have no complaints with > PMON. I actually kind of like it so far.
The interface is fine. As I understand it there's some bug with loading an initrd which makes it extremely slow. Other people may know more. > > At least when I tried, the debian-installer build doesn't have a driver > > for the network chip in the fuloong, you have to find a regular kernel, > > pull out the module, and pack it into debian installer. I've reported a > > bug but there doesn't seem to be any action. > > Are you saying you need the network driver because you're doing a net > install? That would be an annoying issue to deal with. I am hoping somebody > can point me to a USB install with everything I need for the base system on > it, and then presumably with the recent kernel I am hoping the installer > installs, I can build whatever apps I need after that. Thanks for your > update. I was doing a net install as those were the install images I found. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
