[ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

[stanley garvey]

On Jul 11, 2012 23:43 "Doug Peterson" <galen.dp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you. I am rsyncing this now. Will give it a try.
> 
> -Doug
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 6:42 PM, stanley garvey
> <stanley at stanleygarvey.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have an 8gb img
> > Get it via:
> > rsync -avz --delete rsync.stanleygarvey.co.uk::SlackBerry/Image .
> > This is the whole armed slack for an 8 GB sd sandisk card sans KDE.
> > Sorry it's not zipped, it is very late. instructions:
> > dd bs=1M if=Slacberry_8GB.img of=/dev/your_sd_card
> > (most likley sdc) check with mount! don't wipe your hard drive.
> > see rsync -avz rsync.stanleygarvey.co.uk::SlackBerry
> > 
> > Thanks for trying it out Doug.
> > Please replace or edit the file /etc/fstab with :
> > 
> > /dev/mmcblk0p3 swap swap defaults 0 0
> > /dev/mmcblk0p2 / ext4 defaults 1 0
> > /dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot vfat defaults 0 0
> > #/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0
> > #/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
> > devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> > 
> > I messed up and forgot to change this file in the image, oddly the
> > pi boots with an incorrect /etc/fstab anyhow.
> > Some Caveats. the boot will stop with an annoying message regarding
> > the root file system being RW, just continue by hitting enter. You
> > can hack the script /etc/rc.d/rc.S if you like, I chose not to.
> > The Pi has no real time clock and starting the ntp daemon does not
> > set the time, the ntpdate command will set the time example:
> > ntpdate ntp.stanleygarvey.co.uk
> > I have not investigated why this occurs.
> > 
> > I did not think that there was much interest in the image and so had
> > not updated it. I have a couple of slackbuilds that I will upload,
> > this weekend:
> > A script by Hexxeh to update the raspberry pi kernel and firmware
> > also two librarys to enable the use of the hardware accelerated
> > video player 'omxplayer'.
> > Let me know how you get along.
> > Regards
> > Stanley
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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