From gwolfendale at gmail.com Thu Apr 29 14:57:19 2010 From: gwolfendale at gmail.com (Graeme Wolfendale) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:57:19 +0100 Subject: [ARMedslack] slackware on chumby one Message-ID: Hi, I have been using linux for a while but i am totally new to embedded stuff. I am trying to get slack to run on a chumby one. Bear with me here but so far I have: Removed the chumby boot microsd card, tried to mount in crunchbang on a VM (fail so far) Downloaded the miniroot image of slack Any advice ? Thanks, Graeme From gwolfendale at gmail.com Thu Apr 29 15:31:08 2010 From: gwolfendale at gmail.com (Graeme Wolfendale) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:31:08 +0100 Subject: [ARMedslack] slackware on chumby one In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Update - I now successfully mounted the microsd in virtualbox (crunchbang) Then I used peazip in windows xp to extract the .tar.xz. Then copied the extracted files over onto the microsd. I'm trying to boot now fingers crossed.. Graeme On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Graeme Wolfendale wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using linux for a while but i am totally new to embedded > stuff. I am trying to get slack to run on a chumby one. Bear with me > here but so far I have: > > Removed the chumby boot microsd card, tried to mount in crunchbang on > a VM (fail so far) > > Downloaded the miniroot image of slack > > Any advice ? > > Thanks, > > Graeme > From m-lists at biscuit.org.uk Fri Apr 30 10:19:38 2010 From: m-lists at biscuit.org.uk (Stuart Winter) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:19:38 +0100 (BST) Subject: [ARMedslack] slackware on chumby one In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi > I now successfully mounted the microsd in virtualbox (crunchbang) > > Then I used peazip in windows xp to extract the .tar.xz. > > > Then copied the extracted files over onto the microsd. I haven't looked how Peazip works - but to quickly clarify to save you some time -- if you extracted the archive in Windows and put it onto the Micro SD card - does Peazip preserve the file ownerships and permissions? From gwolfendale at gmail.com Fri Apr 30 19:07:03 2010 From: gwolfendale at gmail.com (Graeme Wolfendale) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:07:03 +0100 Subject: [ARMedslack] slackware on chumby one In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Yes peazip just extracts the package same as untar or equivalent. Still no joy but i will keep at it, keep you up to date... graeme On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Stuart Winter wrote: > > Hi > >> I now successfully mounted the microsd in virtualbox (crunchbang) >> >> Then I used peazip in windows xp to extract the .tar.xz. >> >> >> Then copied the extracted files over onto the microsd. > > I haven't looked how Peazip works - but to quickly clarify to save you > some time -- if you extracted the archive in Windows and put it onto > the Micro SD card - does Peazip preserve the file ownerships and permissions? > _______________________________________________ > ARMedslack mailing list > ARMedslack at lists.armedslack.org > http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack > From gwolfendale at gmail.com Fri Apr 30 19:32:15 2010 From: gwolfendale at gmail.com (Graeme Wolfendale) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:32:15 +0100 Subject: [ARMedslack] slackware on chumby one In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Ok Little update. Pretty frustrating this I have the rootdisk, firstly the microsd in the chumby seemed to be write only so i spent ?5 on a new 1gb microssd. All good there. So I connect the usb reader up to linux. According to instructions from the web i did this: fdisk -l to find out that it is /dev/sdb1 then fdisk /dev/sdb1 to make a 1gb linux partition then mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1 then i try to mount like this: mkdir /mnt/sdb1 mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 error no such dir so i try mount /dev/sdb1 ok bit more info this time. I need to edit /etc/fstab so I edit this file by running my text editor with sudo as root, save it with the new line for this usb drive, try to mount again. Still nothing ! What am I doing wrong here ? Graeme PS: I do RTFM before anyone says ;) On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Graeme Wolfendale wrote: > Hi > > Yes peazip just extracts the package same as untar or equivalent. > Still no joy but i will keep at it, keep you up to date... > > graeme > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Stuart Winter wrote: >> >> Hi >> >>> I now successfully mounted the microsd in virtualbox (crunchbang) >>> >>> Then I used peazip in windows xp to extract the .tar.xz. >>> >>> >>> Then copied the extracted files over onto the microsd. >> >> I haven't looked how Peazip works - but to quickly clarify to save you >> some time -- if you extracted the archive in Windows and put it onto >> the Micro SD card - does Peazip preserve the file ownerships and permissions? >> _______________________________________________ >> ARMedslack mailing list >> ARMedslack at lists.armedslack.org >> http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack >> >