Hi Rich
Well I had a thaught about it and I think that what could suit me best would
probabbly be the mini root.
So here are a few more questions:
1) is the mini root tarball just a xz compressed tarball of / ?
2) how would I use the openwrt second stage boot loader to boot from a usb
drive with the mini root on it ?
3) I see in the help that there is a bootusb (or usbboot or something to that
meaning anyway) command: the help on it is not very helpfull so how would I use
that to boot from mini root on usb drive ?
4) You mentioned just renaming kernel and initrd: is that part of what needs to
be done to boot from usb ?
5) Are the slackware kirkwood kernel and initrd good for the dockstar or do
they need to be recompiled/remade ?
I hav experience on zaurus and know that kernels for c860 and c1000 are
incompatible although the hardware difference is minimal.
I like the installer to but for differente reasons ;-) I'm an olt time
slackware user on x86 so reconfiguring system is not a problem for me but
getting slackware on an unsupported patform on which I've not much experience
is a different story :-D.
Thanx in advance
David
--- Lun 14/3/11, Rich richard.lapoi...@gmail.com ha scritto:
Da: Rich richard.lapoi...@gmail.com
Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] Hello
A: armedslack@lists.armedslack.org
Data: Lunedì 14 marzo 2011, 01:21
David,
There are of few of us running armslack on dockstars, but I
don't think
its officially support (yet). I have not
heard of anyone installing
the armedslack to the on-board flash. There are three
ways that I
manage to get armedslack installed on my dockstar using a
usb drive.
1) Running the slack installer using tfpt using a serial
cable by
following these instructions, either for 13.1 or current:
ftp://ftp.armedslack.org/armedslack/armedslack-13.1/INSTALL_KIRKWOOD.TXT
ftp://ftp.armedslack.org/armedslack/armedslack-current/INSTALL_KIRKWOOD.TXT
2) Loading the mini root file system onto a usb
drive. I didn't change
root, but rather renamed both the kernel and initrd to
uImage and
uInitrd and rebooted.
3) Running the slack installer using ssh. See this
mail list thread,
but read through the complete thread
http://lists.armedslack.org/2011-January/000703.html
I like the installer because it goes thought setting up the
network,
root password, clock, but it's slow. I use both Jeff
Doozan's uboot
(http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/uboot/) and
his rescue system
(http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?4,3896) on my
dockstar. I like the
uboot because it all set up to boot off of usb drives and
there is a
uboot environment variable that you can use to pass boot
options like
the ones needed in installer method of #3 above. The
rescue system get
installed on the on-board flash and will boot if
there are no bootable usb.
Hope you find this helpful
Rich
On 03/13/2011 01:13 AM, Davide wrote:
Hi,
my name is David and I'm new here so please forgive me
if I ask odd questions in odd places.
I got a second hand seagate dockstar that was sold to
me in a semi bricked state: u-boot still works but kernel
image is inconsistent so it no longer boots.
On 03/13/2011 01:13 AM, Davide wrote:
Hi,
my name is David and I'm new here so please
forgive me if I ask odd questions in odd places.
I got a second hand seagate dockstar that was sold
to me in a semi bricked state: u-boot still works but kernel
image is inconsistent so it no longer boots.
I used a modified nokia dku-5 cabkle to fiddle
with u-boot and install openwrt on it to check out that
everything else is working and so far so good but having
used x86 slackware for years I'd rather have slackware on my
dockstar if I can choose.
I'm wondering if the seagate dockstar is amongst
the fully supported devices ?
If it is then is the onboard flash used for
storing boot loader, kernel and initrd and then the rest
should go on mass storage (USB HDU/stick) ?
Also is there support for using the onboard 256 Mb
flash itself as target for the root filesystem (using jffs2
or some other flash tuned filesystem) ?
If it is not then my plan is to use the miniroot
via chroot on a usb stick and try to use that to make a
permanent installation on my dockstar.
Maybe I could use the already installed openwrt as
an initrd itself.
Will this be possible or will I run into some
unthoughtful problem ?
Best regards
David
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I used a modified nokia dku-5 cabkle to fiddle with
u-boot and install openwrt on it to check out that
everything else is working and so far so good but having
used x86 slackware for years I'd rather have slackware on my
dockstar if I can choose.
I'm wondering if the seagate dockstar is
