David, I'm only a user (not a developer) of a Lemote Yeeloong 2F, but I've owned this since 2011, and I've used gnewsense the whole time without a problem.
I recently installed the latest gnewsense after running gnewsense "metad" for for a few years. I found the installation process via USB to be very smooth and easy. The wi-fi works fine. The latest version has gnome desktop, which is more complete than what I experienced with "metad". The only problem seems to be that the gnewsense website is unavailable at times, but you can just get the cached page from google. I think it'll be worth your time to try gnewsense. The instructions for gnewsense are here: www.gnewsense.org/Projects/GNewSenseToMIPS Good luck, Mark On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 04:13:32AM -0700, David Crawford wrote: > Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 04:13:32 -0700 (PDT) > From: David Crawford <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [loongson-dev] Trying to get an OS onto a Yeeloong 2F > > Hi all, > > I've dug my Yeeloong 2F out of storage and have been trying to get an OS > onto it. I've tried Debian, but it fails to install GRUB - then cannot > find boot.cfg when it tries to boot. I wasn't able to manually boot it with > karg. > > The only OS's I've managed to get onto it successfully are the Lemote > Debian restore and Free BSD. The former is in Chinese and the latter > doesn't have functioning wireless. :( > > I've had Debian working fine on it in the past - I'm not sure what to do. > I'll settle for any OS, command line or GUI as long as it's in English and > the Wifi works. Would appreciate some advice as to what's currently the > best OS to put on this system. The Lemote Debian would be fine if I could > get it into English. > > David > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "loongson-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/loongson-dev. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Mark J. FSF Member number #11706 free software is cool
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