[ARMedslack] Installing Slackware arm to NAND storage

[Stuart Winter]

The OP is talking about installation instructions specifically.  The
kernels in Slackware ARM have NAND support, but the installation guides
don't cover installing the OS on to that type of storage.



On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, openpandora at free.fr wrote:

> Zaxxon, the Angstrom-based Open Pandora distro runs on both SD and NAND.
> I can provide some info there.
> First, here's how you can get kernel sources:
>
> mkdir -p /usr/src/
> cd /usr/src/
> git clone git://openpandora.org/pandora-kernel.git
> ln -s pandora-kernel linux
> cd pandora-kernel
> git checkout --track -b pandora-3.2 origin/pandora-3.2
> make omap3_pandora_defconfig
> #clear up qt stuff
> rm scripts/kconfig/qconf.moc
>
> You'll get options for a NAND-enabled kernel in the .config.
>
>
> Quoting Sam Albuquerque <sam.albuquerque at gmail.com>:
>
> > Robby, if you find it again can you up it somewhere? I might be able to
> > work something from it.
> >
> > I'll try to look for instructions from other distros and if I arrive at a
> > working solution, I'll try to post it.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sam
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Robby Workman <robby at rlworkman.net> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 17:15:41 +0000 (GMT)
> > > Stuart Winter <m-lists at biscuit.org.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm trying to migrate the Sheevaplug to Slackware Arm and realised
> > > > > that the installation guide only talks about installing to external
> > > > > devices(SD, USB, etc). Is there a way of installing it to the
> > > > > builtin Flash storage?
> > > > >
> > > > > Since the Sheevaplug has 512B of flash, it is a pity that it
> > > > > remains unused when it could be used as the root partition.
> > > >
> > > > I think I've seen it documented a couple of years ago and shouldn't
> > > > be too hard to setup.
> > > >
> > > > Robby - I think you did this on your Guruplug didn't you?
> > >
> > >
> > > I did, and I had it documented locally, I never put it on the web
> > > (because it wasn't really *good* documentation for *others* to
> > > try to follow), and somewhere along the way, it's been lost.
> > >
> > > -RW
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Stuart Winter
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