Am Monday 14 March 2011 08:48:23 schrieb Davide: > 1) is the mini root tarball just a xz compressed tarball of / ?
Correct. Just untar on a partition of your choice, make some config file adjustments and you are ready to go. A readme file exists. > 2) how would I use the openwrt second stage boot loader to boot from a usb > drive with the mini root on it ? > > 3) I see in the help that there is a bootusb (or usbboot or something to > that meaning anyway) command: the help on it is not very helpfull so how > would I use that to boot from mini root on usb drive ? > > 4) You mentioned just renaming kernel and initrd: is that part of what > needs to be done to boot from usb ? 4 depends on the boot loader you are using and if you use the pre-configured boot commands. > 5) Are the slackware kirkwood kernel and initrd good for the dockstar or do > they need to be recompiled/remade ? I hav experience on zaurus and know > that kernels for c860 and c1000 are incompatible although the hardware > difference is minimal. The kirkwood kernel works fine on the dockstar. Only the LED won't work. Therefore you'd need a patched kernel. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org _______________________________________________ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
