Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-14 Thread Davide
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

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-14 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Monday 14 March 2011 10:05:34 schrieb Davide: That's not coorect: the dockstar has 128 Mb ram and 256 or 512 Mb flash depending on model. You are right. Mine has a 256 MB flash. There is a data partition with 219 MB that is empty and could be used for root. But still this is very small for

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-14 Thread Davide
4) You mentioned just renaming kernel and initrd: is that part of what needs to be done to boot from usb ? 4 depends on the boot loader you are using and if you use the pre-configured boot commands. I'm using this:

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-14 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Monday 14 March 2011 11:29:54 schrieb Stuart Winter: 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