On 16/05/15 04:45, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > Hi, I'm curious if anybody has attempted an install of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD > (any release version) on a soekris net4801, or other Soekris boxes? If > anybody has tried it, I'd be curious to know how it went.
I've been using Soekris boxen (4801, 5501) for many years. First Ubuntu until 10.04, then Debian when Ubuntu dropped support for the CPUs those boxen contain. Just this morning I upgraded a 5501 from Debian Wheezy to Jessie. These days I generally prepare my CF images in a qemu vm. Beats having to netboot the box itself (because the boxes I have do not support booting from USB). Here's the command line I used to boot the image, within which I then did the upgrade: # qemu-system-i386 -cpu kvm32 -hda skr03.whatever.img -serial /dev/tty8 -m 512 Then just copy the image to a CF using dd. Remember to use 4K writes (obs=4096), otherwise you'll be waiting all day and all night for that to finish. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
