[armedslack] I think I am missing something?

[Stephen Pirk]

That is what I thought. Pretty cool running aserver in a window, but I could
not get the mouse out, so the laptop was "locked" for the night long build.

Yeah, I am seeing all this now. Slack _should_ just install, but it cannot
find the IDE drive. Verra strange. I used dd to copy the qume image to a sd
card, and poped it in. Same result: "operating system not found". I even
installed from the slack 13 dvd iso and the install went fine, but no boot.

Somewhere there is a switch, I just have to find it. Others posted lots of
boot flags ide=xxx and other noporobe fails. Nothing. lspci never sees a hdd
device.

Let me load fedora again and see what it does with the disk. Like you
mentioned earlier, it will probably be a /dev/sda scsi device.

Ok, put the slack on the acer on hols, and time to load armedslack on my
sheeva. Whoot!

Thanks Stuart.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 08:11, Stuart Winter <m-lists at biscuit.org.uk> wrote:

>
> Hi Steve
>
> > QEMU is a compiler/emulator (like the 8051 dissasembler/assembler program
> I
> > ran on an original '80's pc). qemu, builds the arm kernel and compiles
> all
> > the programs for arm. At least that is what I see from your response.
>
> QEMU is a full system emulator - emulating real hardware on an x86 host.
> It allows you to run -- in this case -- Slackware ARM , and make Slackware
> ARM think it's running on a real ARM development board.
>
> It's not a compiler.  You'd be best off checking the QEMU web page
> for more information.
>
> > Ok then, I let it do it's thing, growing the disk image as needed as it
> > builds the install image, then I probably create an ISO dvd from that
> disk -
> > never mind... I think I saw instructions to transfer via usb later on in
> the
> > how-to.
>
> I'm a little puzzled by this: Slackware ARM is a port of Slackware -- QEMU
> is an emulator.  You install Slackware ARM to an emulated SCSI hard disk
> (which is really a single image file on your host PC); and it behaves
> like Slackware x86 once installed -- and Slackware ARM believes it's
> running on real ARM hardware.
>
> The installation of Slackware ARM will be the same as Slackware x86 -- a
> full operating system, running off a disc.  You could make a DVD ISO of
> it but I don't know why you'd want to, apart from say a backup.
>
> > Stuart, ya'll rock. Hey, what up with the hybrid bsd/penguin graphic on
> my
> > regular slack 13 i686/smb install?
>
> Linus introduced a Temporary logo change in the .29 series.  It's back to
> standard Tux in .30.
>
> --
> Stuart Winter
> Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org
>
>


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steve pirk
refiamerica.org
"father... the sleeper has awakened..." paul atreides - dune
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