Re: [ARMedslack] Hello everyone

2013-02-11 Thread Stuart Winter
So an installer of some description could be performed, perhaps the simplest would be a pxe boot to boot a minimalistc image to bring up the 10/100 ethernet and install over the internet from a repo. Have you had a chance to look through the INSTALL_* docs in the main tree yet? This will

[ARMedslack] Hello everyone

2013-02-09 Thread Nigel Sollars
Hi, Ive owned a Pandaboard ES ( 4460 ) for quite some time and have been able to get everything working, includes: - Wifi ( TI1271L / firmware ) - Bluetooth ( BTS/BLE Firmware / UIM combo ) - Audio ( HDMI / TWL6040 ) Ive been experimenting with many distro's including Ubuntu,

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-07-12 Thread stanley garvey
On Jul 11, 2012 23:43 Doug Peterson galen...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you. I am rsyncing this now. Will give it a try. -Doug On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 6:42 PM, stanley garvey stan...@stanleygarvey.com wrote: I have an 8gb img Get it via: rsync -avz --delete

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-07-11 Thread Doug Peterson
Hi all, I just wanted to say thank you for all the reply's I received. I also want to apologies for not replying. The same day I first posted my questions about ArmedSlack on the Raspberry Pi, a loved one ended up in the hospital with ARDS. I have not had much time to catch up on things like

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-07-11 Thread Doug Peterson
Thank you. I am rsyncing this now. Will give it a try. -Doug On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 6:42 PM, stanley garvey stan...@stanleygarvey.com wrote: On Jun 20, 2012 09:07 Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: I have an 8gb img Get it via: rsync -avz --delete

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-06-21 Thread Davide
But tbh I'm not sure whether I want to support this device officially (in-tree) because the RPi doesn't support initrds which means potentially a big change to how I build the kernels and modules packages; In my experiments with ARMedSlack on a Seagate DockStar, I remember using a mkboot

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-06-21 Thread Rick Miles
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 07:45 +0100, Davide wrote: I've no idea whether the installer works directly on that platform, but you can get the miniroot working as long as you have a working kernel for the hardware. Look at the bottomb section in the supported platforms ... there is a paragraph on

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-06-21 Thread Davide
I've no idea whether the installer works directly on that platform, but you can get the miniroot working as long as you have a working kernel for the hardware. Look at the bottomb section in the supported platforms ... there is a paragraph on unofficially supported platforms. Look at them

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-06-21 Thread Rick Miles
On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 08:20 +0100, Davide wrote: I've no idea whether the installer works directly on that platform, but you can get the miniroot working as long as you have a working kernel for the hardware. Look at the bottomb section in the supported platforms ... there is a

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-06-20 Thread Davide
armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Inviato: Mercoledì 20 Giugno 2012 1:24 Oggetto: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi Hello all. My name is Doug Peterson.  I am a long time Slackware user. I received my Raspberry Pi this last week and am now working on getting

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-06-20 Thread Stuart Winter
I've no idea whether the installer works directly on that platform, but you can get the miniroot working as long as you have a working kernel for the hardware. Look at the bottomb section in the supported platforms ... there is a paragraph on unofficially supported platforms. Look at them

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-06-20 Thread Tyler T
But tbh I'm not sure whether I want to support this device officially (in-tree) because the RPi doesn't support initrds which means potentially a big change to how I build the kernels and modules packages; In my experiments with ARMedSlack on a Seagate DockStar, I remember using a mkboot

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-06-20 Thread stanley garvey
On Jun 20, 2012 09:07 Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: I have an 8gb img Get it via: rsync -avz --delete rsync.stanleygarvey.co.uk::SlackBerry/Image . This is the whole armed slack for an 8 GB sd sandisk card sans KDE. Sorry it's not zipped, it is very late. instructions: dd bs=1M

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-18 Thread Stuart Winter
Not sure if 13.1 kernel has changed since you two tried but I can assure you that kernel gets loaded and booted but then nothing else: The kernel for 13.1 hasn't changed since it was released as 2.6.33.5. I noticed that this is not the default 13.1 kernel on x86 which is 2.6.33.4 so things

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-17 Thread Davide
panic dew to not mounting root. One other thing: how do I get uboot to tell kernel to load initrd ? Regards David --- Mer 16/3/11, Thorsten Mühlfelder thenk...@gmx.de ha scritto: Da: Thorsten Mühlfelder thenk...@gmx.de Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] Hello A: Slackware ARM port armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-16 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

2011-03-16 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Wednesday 16 March 2011 12:22:18 schrieb Davide: I look like it replaces the original uboot on mtd0, is that correct ? I'm not sure anymore. I would have to investigate the script again first. While openwrt is using original uboot to start another version so that if you screw up you still

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-16 Thread Davide
I look like it replaces the original uboot on mtd0, is that correct ? I'm not sure anymore. I would have to investigate the script again first. While openwrt is using original uboot to start another version so that if you screw up you still have the original one to get things

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-16 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Wednesday 16 March 2011 13:45:53 schrieb Davide: Yes, that's possible. AFAIK you just have to place the second u-boot to the NAND address where originally the kernel can be found. If it fails to load the second u-boot the first u-boot must be able to boot from usb to recover

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-16 Thread Davide
Some hints: Create first partition as fat on usb stick, second partition as ext4. The first will be the boot partition and contain your uImage. usb start ext2load usb 0:1 0x640 /uImage setenv bootargs root=/dev/sda2 rootfstype=ext4 run bootcmd Something like this... Cool this

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-14 Thread Davide
...@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

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

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2010-08-29 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
OK, I've received my Seagate Freeagent Dockstar. I've flashed a new U-Boot loader to it. A description can be found here: http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5?title=PlugApps:Pogoplug_Setboot http://plugapps.com/os/pogoplug/uboot/ The board boots fine when the kirkwood kernel is used, that comes

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2010-08-24 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
I've ordered one of these Dockstars now. I cannot get any cheaper thing here (25 € incl. shipping). Let's see what I can do with it. Am Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:39:19 -0600 schrieb Tyler T tyle...@gmail.com: what CPU/RAM/flash does the Seagate Dockstar have? 1.2GHz ARMv5TE (Kirkwood), 128MB DDR

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2010-08-19 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Hi laprjns, what CPU/RAM/flash does the Seagate Dockstar have? Am Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:04:57 -0400 schrieb Richard Lapointe lapr...@comcast.net: I have a Dockstar coming directly from Seagate ($39 USD) and would like to run ARMedslack on it. Is there a single site that provides

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2010-08-19 Thread Tyler T
what CPU/RAM/flash does the Seagate Dockstar have? 1.2GHz ARMv5TE (Kirkwood), 128MB DDR RAM, 256MB flash. ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2010-08-18 Thread Tyler T
Now I wonder if I should buy an IGEPv2 board. It seems very promising. This indeed would be a nice thing to start a Salix port. Does anybody have experience with this one? Don't know anything about that but here's a forum posting about cheap ARM devices:

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2010-08-18 Thread Richard Lapointe
I have a Dockstar coming directly from Seagate ($39 USD) and would like to run ARMedslack on it. Is there a single site that provides instructions on how I would go about this? Since I am using Salix on my desktops, I want to replace my N2SLU running SlugOS with the Dockstar running

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2010-08-18 Thread Tyler T
I have a Dockstar coming directly from Seagate ($39 USD) and would like to run ARMedslack on it.  Is there a single site that provides instructions on how I would go about this? http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/uboot/ has the basic procedure. Rather than run the script, I just ran the important

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2010-08-15 Thread Stuart Winter
So are there any information how the armed slack packages are build? Yes there is a readme file in the source directory with instructions. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org