[ARMedslack] Slackware ARM on Small NAS (NS-K330)

[Giovanni]

OK, thanks.

When I have one NS-K330, I will try and let you know.

best regards,
giovanni


On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Stuart Winter <m-lists at biscuit.org.uk>wrote:

>
> You would have to install it either manually using a script, or try and
> use the mini root filesystem (probably the easiest route).
> You could not install using the slackware installer because the installer
> wouldn't even fit into RAM!
>
> It may work though but as usual you'd have get a kernel, figure out the
> boot loader etc..
>
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, Giovanni wrote:
>
> > Do you mean that I can install and run Slackware ARM on the NS-K330?
> >
> > best regards
> > giovanni
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Stuart Winter <m-lists at biscuit.org.uk
> >wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > I don't know, but I don't think you'll be happy with it regardless.
> > > > The transfer speeds are going to be terribly slow - bottlenecking
> > > > due to the usb2 speeds *and* the general wimpiness of the hardware.
> > >
> > > Yeah having built the distribution on 287MHZ RiscPCs for a couple of
> years
> > > with 256MB RAM... I don't know how I kept going.  I guess because there
> > > wasn't any better or faster supported arm hardware at the time, so I
> > > didn't have anything to wish I could have ;-)
> > >
> > > I wouldn't bother with it. Some devices use lower speed ARM CPUs but
> their
> > > usage (and software) is tuned to the device to match the usage with the
> > > device's specs.  Slackware ARM is a generic distribution built to run
> > > on the widest range of products possible, at the expense of speed in
> some
> > > areas (which IMO can easily be re-gained by recompiling glibc and some
> > > other critical libraries; but that's another topic :) ).
> > >
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