Re: [ARMedslack] setup support for installing on NFS

2011-04-26 Thread Andrzej Telszewski
On 04/26/2011 02:17 PM, Jim Hawkins wrote: I did an NFS root install a while back. According to my notes I did the following to trick the installer into not requiring a target partition: mount 192.168.1.1:/home/jawkins/devel/armlinux/guruplug-rootfs /mnt -o nolock { sleep 1; touch /var/log/setup

Re: [ARMedslack] setup support for installing on NFS

2011-04-26 Thread Jim Hawkins
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Andrzej Telszewski wrote: > My installation procedure looked like this: > - mounted remote NFS on /mnt, > - used SD/MMC so the setup finally didn't complain about lack of partition, > - in TARGET menu I selected 'Continue' without setting any target partition. > > Any suggest

Re: [ARMedslack] setup support for installing on NFS

2011-04-26 Thread Stuart Winter
> Would you like me to post the complete mini tutorial here? Basically it > consists of setting up NFS server and configuring U-Boot. Yes please! -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armeds

Re: [ARMedslack] setup support for installing on NFS

2011-04-26 Thread Andrzej Telszewski
On 04/26/2011 11:03 AM, Stuart Winter wrote: What else did you do in order to boot over nfs? I might end up doing this myself soon, and if there's anything I can do (eg additional kernel modules or something) before releasing 13.37, I'd like to do it. Would you like me to post the complete mini t

Re: [ARMedslack] setup support for installing on NFS

2011-04-26 Thread Stuart Winter
> Last time I was trying to install ARMed Slack on my ARM board, but I wanted it > to be installed on NFS share. My point is that, it is much easier to develop > embedded system using NFS for its rootfs. Finally I managed to do it, but I > think there should be better way to do so. I agree -- thi

[ARMedslack] setup support for installing on NFS

2011-04-26 Thread Andrzej Telszewski
Hi, First of all, I'm not sure, if this should be posted here, but I guess if it shouldn't, then someone forwards this message to appropriate people;) Last time I was trying to install ARMed Slack on my ARM board, but I wanted it to be installed on NFS share. My point is that, it is much eas