[ARMedslack] Hello

[Davide]

Hi Rich
Well I had a thaught about it and I think that what could suit me best would probabbly be the mini root.

So here are a few more questions:

1) is the mini root tarball just a xz compressed tarball of / ?

2) how would I use the openwrt second stage boot loader to boot from a usb drive with the mini root on it ?

3) I see in the help that there is a bootusb (or usbboot or something to that meaning anyway) command: the help on it is not very helpfull so how would I use that to boot from mini root on usb drive ?

4) You mentioned just renaming kernel and initrd: is that part of what needs to be done to boot from usb ?

5) Are the slackware kirkwood kernel and initrd good for the dockstar or do they need to be recompiled/remade ?
I hav experience on zaurus and know that kernels for c860 and c1000 are incompatible although the hardware difference is minimal.


I like the installer to but for differente reasons ;-) I'm an olt time slackware user on x86 so reconfiguring system is not a problem for me but getting slackware on an unsupported patform on which I've not much experience is a different story :-D.


Thanx in advance
David

--- Lun 14/3/11, Rich <richard.lapointe at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Da: Rich <richard.lapointe at gmail.com>
> Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] Hello
> A: armedslack at lists.armedslack.org
> Data: Lunedì 14 marzo 2011, 01:21
> 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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