On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 10:53:47AM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > 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.
see /etc/opkg/*feed.conf > 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 isn't? http://build.shr-project.org/shr-2012.01/ipk/armv4t/leafpad_0.8.18.1-r1_armv4t.ipk opkg install leafpad Cheers, -- Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: [email protected]
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