[ARMedslack] Hello

[Rich]

For me no, I finally needed a serial cable. I did try loading the mini 
root file system on to a usb stick and renaming the kernel and initrd to 
uImage and uInitrd, but it just keep rebooting the armedslack kernel.  
In the mean time my CA-42 serial cable came in so, once I hooked it up I 
had no problems following the instruction that I linked to in my earlier 
post.  I do believe that Thorsten (also on this mailing list) did manage 
to get armedslack working using the method that I just described.

No, I have not patched the kernel.  I believe that that patch is only 
cosmetic and just provides control of the leds.  See here:
http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/dockstar-kernel.patch. and 
http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,524,908#msg-908.
If you haven't been to Jeff Doozan site, I would recommend it.  Although 
it's Debian centric, there is lots of good information.  Also it looks 
to me like he the main man for an alternate uboot (I'm using his 
uboot).  Maybe someone could use his dockstar Debian installer to use as 
template to make an armedslack installer.  I did install Debian to my 
dockstar using his installer and it was extremely easy, no need for a 
serial cable, however I quickly realized that I was not a Debian fan.


Rich


On 09/17/2010 10:55 AM, Claudio Cavalera wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Richard Lapointe<laprjns at comcast.net>  wrote:
>    
>> I subscribed to this list at the end of August, but have been having trouble
>> getting my email so I just subscribed again with my alternate gmail account.
>>
>> Just wanted to tell you that I've got armedslack running on my dockstar.
>>   Once I got my serial line working, it was quite easy.  I first follow the
>> direction from here:
>> http://plugapps.com/index.php5?title=PlugApps:Pogoplug_Setboot , but only
>> through installing the uboot.  After that I followed the instructions for
>> 13.1 from here:
>> ftp://ftp.armedslack.org/armedslack/armedslack-13.1/INSTALL_KIRKWOOD.TXT.  I
>> actually installed current first, so they both worked.
>>
>> Rich Lapointe
>>      
>
> Great!
> I guess it's not possible to achieve that without a serial cable, is it?
> So you did not patched the kernel to have LEDs working and USB power did you?
> Thanks,
> Claudio
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