Comments on: Debian NSLU2 upgrade Etch to Lenny

By: chewearn

chewearn — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:49:00 +0000

hi Kim
Thanks for the pointer. It has been a long while since I fiddle with the slug, but if I eventually got back to it, it will be useful to know.

By: Kim Rostgaard

Kim Rostgaard — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:53:47 +0000

Check out Martin Michlmayr site, he has a better and faster way of installing Squeeze now using a tarball of a complete userspace and upslung for flashing the kernel.

Best
Kim

By: chewearn

chewearn — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:20:07 +0000

hi dA78
Thanks for the update. I fixed the link.

By: dA78

dA78 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:56:12 +0000

Hi chewearn,
thanks for your advice. >But you see i have already found a solution.
For me is my NSLU2 an important device/server at my homeland intranet.
Not really fast but nice and frugal.

The link wasn’t displayed?
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/nslu2-linux/message/23913

By: dA78

dA78 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:50:27 +0000

hi again,

now the upgrade works. I found a solution for my problem.

By: chewearn

chewearn — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:56:59 +0000

hi dA78
Perhaps some significant things have changed since I wrote this post (was Dec 2008). Unfortunately, my hacked NSLU2 has been a paperweight for many months now; I am not finding any use for it. As a consequence to that, I have not update the device or even turned it on at all.

Previous comment by ajmixto suggested clean install the Armel port instead. Could be something worth looking into.

By: dA78

dA78 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:29:08 +0000

hi,
the upgrade (etch –> lenny) didn’t work for me.

At my NSLU2 “the kernel doesn’t fit in the flash” error message occurred with the “linux-image-2.6.26-2-ixp4xx”. Not good. ;-(

At the moment i search for a solution…

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:47:00 +0000

The armel port is a lot quicker handling floating point operations. If you compile on the NSLU2 don’t forget to use the CFLAGS=-mcpu=xscale.

By: chewearn

chewearn — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:39:15 +0000

hi ajmixto
Thanks for the suggestion. I didn’t know the Debian arm port will be discontinued. Also, have only heard about the armel port, but didn’t know what it is.

I guess it’s time to pay more attention to what’s going on.

By: ajmixto

ajmixto — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:42:11 +0000

Maybe this is a goot time to make a fresh install and not an upgrade because the arm port of debian will dissapear after the release of Lenny.

To install Squeeze you will need to use the armel port, so I think that if you do not have a very customised system, it is a good time to try the Lenny armel port.