[ARMedslack] Hello

[Rich]

David,

There are of few of us running armslack on dockstars, but I don't think 
its officially support (yet).   I have not heard of anyone installing 
the armedslack to the on-board flash.  There are three ways that I 
manage to get armedslack installed on my dockstar using a usb drive.

1) Running the slack installer using tfpt using a serial cable by 
following these instructions, either for 13.1 or current:
      
ftp://ftp.armedslack.org/armedslack/armedslack-13.1/INSTALL_KIRKWOOD.TXT
      
ftp://ftp.armedslack.org/armedslack/armedslack-current/INSTALL_KIRKWOOD.TXT

2) Loading the mini root file system onto a usb drive.  I didn't change 
root, but rather renamed both the kernel and initrd to uImage and 
uInitrd and rebooted.

3) Running the slack installer using ssh.  See this mail list thread, 
but read through the complete thread
    http://lists.armedslack.org/2011-January/000703.html

I like the installer because it goes thought setting up the network, 
root password, clock, but it's slow.  I use both Jeff Doozan's uboot 
(http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/uboot/) and his rescue system 
(http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?4,3896)  on my dockstar.  I like the 
uboot because it all set up to boot off of usb drives and there is a 
uboot environment variable that you can use to pass boot options like 
the ones needed in installer method of #3 above.  The rescue system get 
installed  on the on-board flash and will boot if there are no bootable usb.
Hope you find this helpful

Rich



On 03/13/2011 01:13 AM, Davide wrote:
> Hi,
> my name is David and I'm new here so please forgive me if I ask odd questions in odd places.
>
> I got a second hand seagate dockstar that was sold to me in a semi bricked state: u-boot still works but kernel image is inconsistent so it no longer boots.
> On 03/13/2011 01:13 AM, Davide wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>> my name is David and I'm new here so please forgive me if I ask odd questions in odd places.
>>
>> I got a second hand seagate dockstar that was sold to me in a semi bricked state: u-boot still works but kernel image is inconsistent so it no longer boots.
>>
>> I used a modified nokia dku-5 cabkle to fiddle with u-boot and install openwrt on it to check out that everything else is working and so far so good but having used x86 slackware for years I'd rather have slackware on my dockstar if I can choose.
>>
>> I'm wondering if the seagate dockstar is amongst the fully supported devices ?
>> If it is then is the onboard flash used for storing boot loader, kernel and initrd and then the rest should go on mass storage (USB HDU/stick) ?
>> Also is there support for using the onboard 256 Mb flash itself as target for the root filesystem (using jffs2 or some other flash tuned filesystem) ?
>>
>> If it is not then my plan is to use the miniroot via chroot on a usb stick and try to use that to make a permanent installation on my dockstar.
>> Maybe I could use the already installed openwrt as an initrd itself.
>> Will this be possible or will I run into some unthoughtful problem ?
>>
>> Best regards
>> David
>>
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> I used a modified nokia dku-5 cabkle to fiddle with u-boot and install openwrt on it to check out that everything else is working and so far so good but having used x86 slackware for years I'd rather have slackware on my dockstar if I can choose.
>
> I'm wondering if the seagate dockstar is amongst the fully supported devices ?
> If it is then is the onboard flash used for storing boot loader, kernel and initrd and then the rest should go on mass storage (USB HDU/stick) ?
> Also is there support for using the onboard 256 Mb flash itself as target for the root filesystem (using jffs2 or some other flash tuned filesystem) ?
>
> If it is not then my plan is to use the miniroot via chroot on a usb stick and try to use that to make a permanent installation on my dockstar.
> Maybe I could use the already installed openwrt as an initrd itself.
> Will this be possible or will I run into some unthoughtful problem ?
>
> Best regards
> David
>
>
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>
>
>
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