Am Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012, 05:47:53 schrieb Jared Maddox: > Ok, the rescue attempt succeeded. Thanks to both Joachim Ott (who > seems to have sent his(?) reply directly to me?) and Alishams Hassam. > > Now, my questions. > > 1) Right now, I'm trying to setup a swapfile. On NAND. Before I do > this, I want to confirm something: if I use touch to create a new > file, and then use dd to fill it with zeroes, this will write to that > file in the filesystem, and NOT to an arbitrary location in NAND, > correct?
If you create your swap file, like it is described here: http://shr- project.org/trac/wiki/swap you will wirte in that file. But in your case this file will be on NAND and doing swap on NAND is not recommended. > 2) The wiki mentions using Slim from OpenEmbedded if you want to run > as a conventional user, instead of running as root. How well does this > work? Any better methods? Any changes on this front? > > Relatedly, what do I need to secure for this to genuinely have a point > / what should I google as a *nix noob on *nix security? Running SHR not as root is not an easy task, if it would be easiely possible this would already be in the default image. Therefore i would not recommend this if you count yourself as a *nix noob. > 3) I want to install leafpad as a text editor, as well as gcc etc., > but I'm not seeing any links to precompiled package repositories. Did > opkg.org (or whatever it was) die? Are there any alternatives? I > already have a USB battery, so compile time vs. battery life doesn't > worry me. leafpad is not in the feeds of SHR, but if you ask Martin Jansa he can add it for you as a Openembedded recipe already exists in oe-core. For gcc you can just use opkg install gcc g++-symlinks _______________________________________________ Shr-User mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user
