I can verify that there are still issues with the RC2 Installer if you do not preformat the Flash drive beforehand. I have not been able to get it past closing the SSH sessions unless I had previously formatted the memory stick with a swap partition and a main ext3 partition. (essentially follow http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Debian/DebianInstallerDisconnectsSSH )
Paul Tan. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Breidenbach Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 4:44 PM To: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Subject: success report, armel on nslu2 I bought another nslu2 yesterday, and a 4GB USB flash drive. Absolute disaster; every combination I tried ended up failing, usually while installing the base system. Fiddled with the etch RC2 installer, armel installer, automatic vs manual partitioning, etc. Today I threw out the memory stick (it was a "PQI u230") and replaced it with a 2GB "Corsair Flash Voyager" which had good reviews for speed and reliability. Worked like a charm on the first try. I did pre-partition and format the USB stick on a desktop Linux computer first, giving 256MB to swap and the rest as an ext3 partition. Probably would have worked fine letting the installer do this, but but I wanted to minimize the number of things that could go wrong. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]