Bricked my SheevaPlug?

2009-06-18 Thread Rick Thomas
I needed to move my SheevaPlug to a different part of the lab. So I logged into the console port. Issued a "shutdown -h now". Waited til it said it was shutdown. Unplugged it. Moved it. Plugged it back in. The little green light comes on, but... The little blue light never does come on. I can "c

Re: Debian 5.0 (lenny) tar ball for the SheevaPlug - USB install

2009-06-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 17, 2009, at 8:18 AM, John Hughes wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: On May 12, 2009, at 3:39 AM, John Hughes wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: Next: (when they release a version that supports both of the on- chip ethernet ports) I plan to replace my home router/firewall/ IPv6-tunnel-endpoint with

Re: How to make sure my plug boots from the USB flash-stick instead of the USB hard-disk?

2009-06-16 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 27, 2009, at 5:14 AM, David Given wrote: Martin Michlmayr wrote: [...] If you look at bootcmd_usb you'll see something like "ext2load usb 0:1". 0:1 defines the device and partition. Unfortunately, I don't know whether you can force any consistent device naming in u-boot. I suppose you

Re: Debian 5.0 (lenny) tar ball for the SheevaPlug - USB install

2009-06-16 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 12, 2009, at 3:39 AM, John Hughes wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: Next: (when they release a version that supports both of the on- chip ethernet ports) I plan to replace my home router/firewall/IPv6- tunnel-endpoint with a Debian shivaplug. I think you want the "openrd&q

How to make sure my plug boots from the USB flash-stick instead of the USB hard-disk?

2009-05-20 Thread Rick Thomas
My plug is now working very nicely thanks! It boots from a USB stick. Since it's the only USB mass storage device, it's /dev/sda. I'd like to add a USB hub and use it to connect another USB device (a hard disk) for use as /var, /home, /tmp, and swap. But then there would be a confusion

Re: Odd ownership of files in tarball [Re: Debian 5.0 (lenny) tar ball for the SheevaPlug - USB install]

2009-05-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 19, 2009, at 4:49 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Gaudenz Steinlin [2009-05-19 09:17]: How exactly did you produce this diff? If you extract the tarball on another system and then produced the diff on this system, then this is just expected. The tarball only stores numerical ids and th

Odd ownership of files in tarball [Re: Debian 5.0 (lenny) tar ball for the SheevaPlug - USB install]

2009-05-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 8, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: Cool! My first shivaplug arrived this morning. It's now installed and doing useful work. A fairly painless process -- thanks very much for the step-by-step instructions, Martin! I doubt if I could have done it myself with jus

Re: Debian 5.0 (lenny) tar ball for the SheevaPlug - USB install

2009-05-10 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi David, I'm glad to see I've got some company! On May 10, 2009, at 2:06 PM, David Given wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick Thomas wrote: [...] My first shivaplug arrived this morning. While I was waiting for it to arrive, I already purchased a USB hub,

Re: Debian 5.0 (lenny) tar ball for the SheevaPlug - USB install

2009-05-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Cool! My first shivaplug arrived this morning. While I was waiting for it to arrive, I already purchased a USB hub, a 16GB USB stick (for main system residency), and a mess of 1GB sticks (for misc temporary stuff during installation), so I plan to spend the weekend getting Debian install

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 25, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Rick Thomas [2009-03-25 16:19]: I'd suggest the latter, unless you want to help out -- there are ways to do that, even if you don't know how to write code. OK, I'm game. I'd love to help. Where can I buy one? W

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 25, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:56:37PM +0100, Björn Wetterbom wrote: What kind of time frames are we talking about when it comes to Debian support for Kirkwood for us "ordinary users" who don't compile our own kernels and want our machine to

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-03-07 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 7, 2009, at 3:25 AM, Bob Cox wrote: In your original post you indicated that you had the slug setup to use DHCP. Would it be possible for you to reflash with the Linksys firmware, then set a hostname, static IP address, netmask, default gateway and nameserver and try again with the lenn

(OT) Debian on the HP Compaq t5135 Thin Client?

2009-02-17 Thread Rick Thomas
caught my eye. Thanks! Rick Rick Thomas wrote: Has anybody tried running debian on the HP Compaq t5135 Thin Client? 128 MB SDRAM, 64MB Flash, VIA Eden 400 MHz processor, 10/100 ethernet, several USB ports, one serial and one parallel port, VGA video. US$149 direct from HP (probably

USB Ethernet Adapters [Re: Please test daily debian-installer images]

2008-08-31 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 31, 2008, at 4:38 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: If you have a spare ARM machine or want to reinstall your machine for some reason and if you have a serial console, please use the installer images from the following location and report problems to this list: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh

Debian on a chumby?

2008-07-22 Thread Rick Thomas
Has anybody looked at installing Debian on a Chumby? More expensive than a Slug, but faster CPU, twice the RAM, eight times the flash, and a screen (no soldering required to observe the boot process!) http://store.chumby.com/ http://wiki.chumby.com/mediawiki/index.php/Hacking_Linux_for_ch

Re: Puzzling difference between debian-arm and debian-i386 re growisofs

2008-04-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 18, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Barry Tennison wrote: So I think it's definitely in the genisoimage -M code, and COULD BE an endian issue there. For what it proves, if anything, I tried to recreate the bug cd mkdir tmp1 touch tmp1/nullfile-with-long-name genisoimage -R tmp1/ >RR-arm-1.is

Re: encrypted root fs on a slug and crypto-modules

2008-02-24 Thread Rick Thomas
I don't know how much load you're going to put on your proposed Kerberos KDC, but the extra CPU load placed on it by encrypting the filesystem may make it unresponsive, given the Slug's not-very-fast CPU. Let us know how it turns out. Rick On Feb 24, 2008, at 1:42 AM, Anders Lennartsson wro

Re: Print server on nslu2

2008-01-18 Thread Rick Thomas
It probably depends heavily on what else you've got going on in the background. The Slug is tightly memory constrained and consequently prone to swapping. CUPS (and the things it calls to do its job) can take a lot of RAM. Rick On Jan 18, 2008, at 7:10 AM, Sam Reed wrote: Strangely on

Re: ARM installer images for etch (4.0) currently broken

2007-12-27 Thread Rick Thomas
Cool.. Thanks, Martin, for all your efforts! This is a really great Solstice gift. Rick On Dec 27, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-27 13:51]: OK! 4.0r2 has been announced! Has anybody tried installing it on a slug yet? Yeah,

Re: ARM installer images for etch (4.0) currently broken

2007-12-27 Thread Rick Thomas
OK! 4.0r2 has been announced! Has anybody tried installing it on a slug yet? Rick On Dec 20, 2007, at 1:49 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Jake McGraw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-19 11:47]: Has this been addressed yet? Can we get a time frame for 4.0r2? The current target date is December

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 24, 2007, at 6:04 AM, John Winters wrote: John Winters wrote: [suggestions on disc usage] Apologies for following up to my own post, but thinking more about the question it struck me that it's a bit silly to layer LVM on top of RAID0. Apart from maintaining symmetry it doesn't seem

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 24, 2007, at 5:21 AM, John Winters wrote: Assuming the answer is yes, then how about this as a plan? Create a 10G partition on each disc. Combine with RAID1. Use as /. Create a 1G partition on each disc. Combine with RAID1. Use as swap. Create, say, a 100G partition on each disc. C

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 23, 2007, at 7:06 AM, Andrew Haswell wrote: can you give me some advice as to what partitions to create, can i get away with just root and swap or is it worth considering more granularity. I will install Debian on 1 HDD to start and add the other in after, mirror the debian partit

Re: Best USB stick for the slug

2007-09-20 Thread Rick Thomas
Are you swapping to the USB stick on this slug? If so, it may not be the right medium for you. The Flash RAM used in USB sticks has a lifetime limit of approximately 100,000 - 1,000,000 write cycles [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_state_drive] If you're not swapping, you should sti

Re: ARM installer images for etch (4.0) currently broken

2007-09-01 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks to Rainer and Wouter for this workaround! Q: How does one invoke the "expert" mode in the "unofficial image" for the NSLU2 installer? Essentially, Rainer's instructions invoke "expert mode" the hard way, but if there's an easy way to get into expert mode right from the start, I'd li

Re: ARM installer images for etch (4.0) currently broken

2007-08-31 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 21, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: This is just a note to inform people that the netboot installer images on ARM for etch (Debian 4.0) are currently broken. Hi Martin! Is there any word yet on when this will be fixed? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: NSLU2 clock drift

2007-05-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 18, 2007, at 6:00 AM, Marcus Better wrote: Hi, my NSLU2 (266 MHz) has a problem with timekeeping. I run ntp, but it doesn't help - the clock drifts at least fifteen minutes a day. Did I miss something obvious? My kernel is 2.6.20-1-ixp4xx. Marcus Marcus, If you're running Debian,

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