[ARMedslack] Install Slackware on a new Raspberry Pi

[Gregg Levine]

On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 2:52 PM, stanley garvey
<stanley at stanleygarvey.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 3, 2013 19:33 "stanley garvey" <stanley at stanleygarvey.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 3, 2013 18:51 "Andrei B." <andrixnet at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> My experience so far , as I also have the model B (512ram) is like this:
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> - raspbian or weezy works fine. Note that they were from october 2012,
> after the launch of the mode B.
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> Dave's image (so far) for slackware is dated august 2012.
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> Using Dave's image and start.elf from the raspbian image, I managed to
> start the installer (set for only 128MB ram) and do a complete installation,
> on my 16G image. However, I couldn't start the system after installation,
> with the installed kernel, following all of Dave's instructions.
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> I'm still researching with Stanley's site. I'll probably bring up my own
> site, to document these experiences.
> I think is super cool that Slackware exists as full distro, just like the
> x86 version, for ARM.
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> I still have to try (tomorrow, maybe) Stanley's already installed images.
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> --- On Sun, 2/3/13, rouvas at mm.di.uoa.gr <rouvas at mm.di.uoa.gr> wrote:
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> From: rouvas at mm.di.uoa.gr <rouvas at mm.di.uoa.gr>
> Subject: Re: [ARMedslack] Install Slackware on a new Raspberry Pi
> To: "Philippe Tjon-A-Hen" <pnmtjonahen at gmail.com>
> Cc: armedslack at lists.armedslack.org
> Date: Sunday, February 3, 2013, 10:01 AM
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> Philippe Tjon-A-Hen wrote:
> > Found this site yet ? http://rpi.fatdog.eu/?p=home
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> Yes I have already been there, thanks for the suggestion.
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> My problem is that I cannot start the installer (rainbow screen).
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> Is there anything particular at this site that I should be paying more
> attention to?
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> -Stathis
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> >  Op 3 feb. 2013 03:12 schreef <rouvas at mm.di.uoa.gr> het volgende:
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> >> Hi all,
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> >> first of all, thanks to everyone here for the wonderful work. Keep it
> >> up!
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> >> Just got my Pi (model B, 512MB) and tried the raspian-wheezy
> >> (2012-12-16)
> >> first and it works fine.
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> >> Followed instructions from Dave's Collective
> >> (http://www.daves-collective.co.uk/raspi/installing.shtml) and prepared
> >> two SD cards, a 8GB and a 32GB.
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> >> Unfortunately, with either of the cards, all I get is the rainbow
> >> screen.
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> >> How does one proceed from that?
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> >> -Stathis
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> Hi, please use the 16 GB image, it is cleaner and has an issue with
> networking fixed. You can use the 8GB image but read issues and workarounds
> on my site first!
> The 16GB image has a prettier boot partition and include the full
> config.txt file from elinux with every config parm you can think of.
> Both images are based upon the work of David Spencer but contain no tweeks
> or optimizations.
> You can use the image as an installer by uncommenting these lines in
> config.txt:
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> ## ramfsfile (string)
> ##     ramfs file to load
> ##
> #ramfsfile="intrd-versatile.img" <--uncomment (line 493)
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> ## ramfsaddr
> ##     Address to load ramfs file at
> ##
> #ramfsaddr=0xa00000 <--uncomment (line 498)
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> If you chose to reinstall this way be mindful that you will lose the
> kernel modules and source, so move them some place safe first.
> The installation steps are the same as Davids, however no extra packages
> exist.
> I would like to write an installer but my partner says I spend to much
> time on this already, plus I've been working 7 days a week :(
> You can also find a bunch of natively rebuilt packages at
> ftp.stanleygarvey.co.uk
> most of series a has been rebuilt all of series xfce and more, take a
> look.
> If you wish to use these packages you can do so by using the command :
> upgradepkg --reinstall somepackage-*arm*tgz
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> I hope that helps,
> comments to slackberry(at)stanleygarvey.com
> Best regards
> Stanley.
> P.S you will need to comment out the lines you uncommented above in the
> config.txt or you will reboot back into an install, I shouldn't need to tell
> you that, but just to be clear.
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Hello!
Stanley you're saying to boot into a normal Slackware screen as
opposed to the installer based ramdisk I need to uncomment those lines
that're commented out? I had an inspired guess regarding that, but,
ah, never had a chance to try it.

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