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Re: [LUG] NSLU2

 

Robin Cornelius wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Benjamin M. A'Lee
> <bma+lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 11:09:03AM +0100, James Fidell wrote:
>>> Do we have any slug-hackers on the list?
>>>
>>> Mine arrived yesterday and I'm a little overwhelmed by sheer volume of
>>> information on the wiki, much of which may well be irrelevant for my
>>> purposes as far as I can see.
>> FSVO hacker; I run one as a fileserver.
>>
>> If you want to install Debian on it, http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/
>> has all the details you'll need.
>>
>> I don't have any experience of doing  anything else with it yet, though
>> I've been meaning to put a serial port on it (for the occasional failure
>> to boot and so on).
>>
> 
> I've got one as well, with debian on an external 2.5" USB disk and
> i've added an RS232 port which is not that hard. I've kept away from
> the memory upgrade as that was a little too hairy even for me ;-)

Well, I am making progress today, albeit slowly, with SlugOS/LE.
Initially I'd gone for 4.08-beta, but that doesn't seem to have a
working C development environment.  I've now dropped back to
3.10-beta with more success.

James

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